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. Liberty Hyde Bailey More Quotes by Liberty Hyde Bailey More Quotes From Liberty Hyde Bailey When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. Liberty Hyde Bailey acquaintancejourneytravel 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. Liberty Hyde Bailey plants-growinggardenambition The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions. Liberty Hyde Bailey morningmennight 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. Liberty Hyde Bailey gardenopportunitychildren 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. Liberty Hyde Bailey gardenrainwind There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. Liberty Hyde Bailey excellencelabordream Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; Liberty Hyde Bailey miracleyesterdayspring A garden is half made when it is well planned. Liberty Hyde Bailey gardenhalfmade A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. Liberty Hyde Bailey gardenlovejobs 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 visionlandmay 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. Liberty Hyde Bailey rockslandsea There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well. Liberty Hyde Bailey toolssatisfactiondoe The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. Liberty Hyde Bailey sunsetteachingeducation 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. Liberty Hyde Bailey contributionusualworld 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. Liberty Hyde Bailey evolutionhomemean 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. Liberty Hyde Bailey progressinspirationpast Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden. Liberty Hyde Bailey gardentoolsjoy Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. Liberty Hyde Bailey learningeducationneeds 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. Liberty Hyde Bailey simplicitygardenmind No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force. Liberty Hyde Bailey beastearthworld
