every farmer knows the hunger of the wilderness. that hunger which no modern farm machinery, no improved agricultural methods can quite destroy. no matter how well-prepared the soil, how well-kept the fences, how carefully painted the buildings, let the owner neglect for awhile his prized and valued acres and they will revert again to the wilds and be swallowed by the jungle or the wasteland. the bias of nature is toward the wilderness never toward the fruitful field.

a.w. tozer