Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Baileywas an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.:10–15...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
Liberty Hyde Bailey quotes about
love jobs garden
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
garden joy tools
Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.
tools satisfaction doe
There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.
heart numbers soul
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.
children opportunity garden
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.
morning night men
The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.
ambition garden plants-growing
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.
rain garden wind
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.
traveling-alone traveler acquaintance
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
people effort needs
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.
mean home evolution
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.
inspiration past progress
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.