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
two done essentials
There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
feels knows depends
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
educational needs handicrafts
Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
garden half made
A garden is half made when it is well planned.
dream excellence labor
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
spring yesterday miracle
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!
educational sunset men
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
dream earth saws
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.
earth world beast
No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
usual world contribution
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.
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.
philosophy world may
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
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.