The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's… — 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
