I get into what were once the Black Lands, of Arizona, known
as the great American desert, and I find it blossoming with
fertility, and I say, “How is this?” The reply is that
irrigation has been established. How can you prove it? Look
about you. It is interesting to know what engineers built the
reservoirs on the mountain tops and how much they cost, but
the evidence that they have been built are the rills of water
running through the land and the crops growing there. Now I
look upon the world that nineteen centuries ago was desert and
I see flowers of hope and fruits of love and visions of faith
springing up. That is the evidence.--LYMAN ABBOTT.
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