Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes

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• A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended…
• The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
• A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
• The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that…
• 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…
• Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they…
• Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
• When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
• The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.
• One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the…
• I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea.…
• 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…
• There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
• My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning,…
• We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well…
• No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
• One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
• There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
• Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is…
• Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of…

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