A tree is our most intimate contact with nature..

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape ….

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value.

When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to l….

There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of th….

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible..