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
traveling-alone traveler acquaintance
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
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.
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.
tools satisfaction doe
There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.
garden joy tools
Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.
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.
land vision may
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.
land vision may
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.
sea land rocks
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.
garden simplicity mind
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.
dream excellence labor
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
philosophy world may
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
educational sunset men
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
educational needs handicrafts
Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.