Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes
The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.
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.
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
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.
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.
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.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
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.
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.
No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
