A Quote from Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden...though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

-- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Charles Willson Peale, August 20, 1811