31 Quotes by Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

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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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    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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    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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