Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. :10-15 Read full biography of 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... →
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... →
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
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... →
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
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... →
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
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... →
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. :10-15