One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future. — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done. — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well. — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force. — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden. — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
