31 Quotes by Liberty Hyde Bailey

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.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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

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.

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.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

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