Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes

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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.

Liberty Hyde Bailey
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

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Every person is interested in the evident things, few in the abstruse and recondite.

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

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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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If it were possible for every person to own a tree and to care for it, the good results would be beyond estimation.

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A good teacher is better than all the laboratories and apparatus.

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

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

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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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The kernel of modern educational development is to relate the school-training to the daily life. Much of our education is not connected with the conditions in which the pupils live and is extraneous to the lives that they must lead.

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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!

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If I were to write a motto over the gate of a garden, I should choose the remark which Socrates made as he saw the luxuries in the market, "How much there is in the world that I do not want!"

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

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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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Education should train persons to live, rather than to be scientists.

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The teacher who thinks first of his subject teaches science; he who thinks first of his pupil teaches nature-study.

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The heavier palms are the big game of the plant world.

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

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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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The youth is by nature a generalist. He should not be forced to be a specialist.

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