body-wise

Updated: July 21, 2025

Not that every boy ought to live on a farm and work in a barn-yard, hoe corn all summer and chop wood all winter, but I don't believe a child can grow up strong, healthy, and natural, body-wise and soul-wise, unless he has a chance to scrape an acquaintance with Mother Nature with his own hands.

E. C. (Eugene Clarence) Gardner - Homes and How to Make Them