"Here in my isle of silence, between low land and marsh, under the spacious sky, I want to try an experiment -- to live simply and honestly, without indolence or haste, neither wasting time nor devouring it, not refusing burdens but not inventing useless ones, not secluding myself in a secret cell of solitude, but not multiplying dull and futile relations. One thing I may say honestly and sincerely, that I do indeed desire to fulfill the Will and purpose of God for me, if I can but discern it;" A.C.Benson