“My work is my life; the more work I have in hand the happier I am. Music is my amusement, and digging is my recreation. You smile when I say digging is my recreation; but it is so. Your Gladstone fells oaks; I dig with a spade, and I am much prouder of having my name on a spade than in a book.”
Björnstjerne Björnson
-as quoted by Mrs. Alec Tweedie in ‘Henrik Ibsen and Björnstjerne Björnson’, Temple Bar, London: 1893
