Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Baileywas an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.:10–15...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
garden half made
A garden is half made when it is well planned.
garden simplicity mind
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.
love jobs garden
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
garden joy tools
Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.
children opportunity garden
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.
ambition garden plants-growing
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.
rain garden wind
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.
feels knows depends
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
educational needs handicrafts
Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
two done essentials
There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
people effort needs
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.
dream excellence labor
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
spring yesterday miracle
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!
inspiration past progress
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.