Quotes by Liberty Hyde Bailey - Page 1

A garden is half made when it is well planned.
Liberty Hyde Bailey / Botanist
Garden
Half
Made
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Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
Liberty Hyde Bailey / Botanist
Education
Learning
Needs
Decade
Handicraft
Manual
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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
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Journey
Alone
Travel
Acquaintance
Traveler
Acquainted
Gets
Goes
Himself
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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Depends
Feels
Knows
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Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.
Liberty Hyde Bailey / Botanist
Garden
Joy
Tools
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There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
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Done
Enterprise
Essentials
Two
Begin
Essential
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There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.
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Doe
Satisfaction
Tools
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The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
Liberty Hyde Bailey / Botanist
Education
Purpose
Sunset
Teach
Teaching
Triumphant
True
Carry
Himself
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
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Dream
Happiness
Excellence
Labor
Oneself
Usefulness
Cannot
Either
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No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
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Beast
Earth
World
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No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
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Natural World
Conquered
Muscular
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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.
Liberty Hyde Bailey / Botanist
Jobs
Love
Garden
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If 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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Gardening
Emotion
Plant
Devoid
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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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Men
Morning
Night
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Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey / Botanist
Contemplation
May
Philosophy
Ultimate
World
Science Religion World
Eventually
Explain
Remain
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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.
Liberty Hyde Bailey / Botanist
Heart
Numbers
Soul
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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.
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Contribution
Usual
World
Bound
Concerning
Subject
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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.
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Opportunity
Children
Garden
Matters
Plants
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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.
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Inspiration
Past
Progress
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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.
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Gardening
Good
Ambition
Attention
Effort
Garden
Good Intentions
Labor
Patient
Plants Growing
Thrive
Because
Grow
Someone
Them
Fulfill
Intentions
Merely
Plants
Requires
Satisfy
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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 / Botanist
Garden
Rain
Wind
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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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Miracle
Spring
Yesterday
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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.
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Grain
Harvest
Land
May
Reap
Vision
Diligently
Gather
Prepare
Seed
Sow
We Cannot
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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.
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Dream
Earth
Fulfillment
Privilege
Saws
Significant
Life Dreams Time
Appears
Continuous
Every Time
Saw
Meaning
Perhaps
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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.
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Home
Evolution
Mean
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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.
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Land
Rocks
Sea
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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 / Botanist
Occult
Rocks
Sea
Streams
Variety
Visible
Everywhere
Absorb
Creep
Entranced
Float
Plants
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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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Garden
Mind
Simplicity
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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.
Liberty Hyde Bailey / Botanist
Advertising
Earnest
Effort
Exploitation
Farms
Needs
People
Publicity
Work Effort People
Work People Own
Continuous
Extension
Institution
Nor
Plain
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