no occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, & no culture comparable to that of the garden. but tho’ an old man, I am but a young gardener. –Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 20 August 1811
Related Materials
- Related links on Jefferson’s interest in agriculture and gardening
- Article on Charles Willson Peale in the Monticello’s Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
- Image of Jefferson’s letter to Charles Willson Peale at the Library of Congress American Memory Web site
