Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes

• When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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  Travel, Journey, Acquaintance

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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 effort on them.

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  Ambition, Garden, Plants Growing

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• The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

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  Morning, Night, Men

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1910). “Manual of Gardening: A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the Growing of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for Home Use”

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• There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

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  Dream, Excellence, Labor

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915). “York State Rural Problems”

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• 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 try for themselves.

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  Children, Opportunity, Garden

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• 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 winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

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  Rain, Garden, Wind

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• 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 is.

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  Heart, Numbers, Soul

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903). “The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature”

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• Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
  To-day the glint of green is there;
  Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
  I know no thing so wondrous fair,
  No miracle so strangely rare.
  I wonder what will next be there!

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Spring, Yesterday, Miracle

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• 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, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

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  Dream, Earth, Saws

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• A garden is half made when it is well planned.

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  Garden, Half, Made

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• 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. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

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  Rocks, Sea, Land

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• 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.

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  Inspiration, Past, Progress

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1906). “The Survival of the Unlike: A Collection of Evolution Essays Suggested by the Study of Domestic Plants”

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• A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

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  Love, Jobs, Garden

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1925). “The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898”

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• 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 prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

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  Land, Vision, May

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915). “York State Rural Problems”

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• The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

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  Education, Teaching, Sunset

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• Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

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  Education, Learning, Needs

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• 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 a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

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  People, Effort, Needs

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1910). “Reprints of Addresses”

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• 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 work and place.

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  Home, Mean, Evolution

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• One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

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  Feels, Knows, Depends

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903). “The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature”

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• There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

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  Doe, Tools, Satisfaction

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1925). “The gardener: a book of brief directions for the growing of the common fruits, vegetables and flowers in the garden and about the house”

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• 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 the world.

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  Usual, World, Contribution

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• There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

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  Two, Essentials, Done

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903). “The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature”

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• Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

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  Garden, Joy, Tools

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1934). “Gardener's handbook, successor to The gardener: brief indications for the growing of common flowers, vegetables and fruits in the garden and about the home”

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• 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 with the novice.

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  Garden, Simplicity, Mind

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• No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  World, Earth, Beast

  "The Holy Earth".

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