"I am sure that the Creator never intended his children to get so far away from the garden, and I can conceive of no nobler mission than that of our great nature lovers, who are constantly striving to lead us back again into the simpler paths of life. Paradise was of God's own planting, and in all the history of the development of man we are clearly shown how He has caused, over and over again, the returning of man to the pursuits that lead him to seek in nature the lesson for his own character building. This is a much-trodden path, this path to Eden, and it is a long-discovered country, but each one may and does discover anew much for himself"

Belle Sumner Angier in The Garden Book of California, 1906