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Letter "L" » Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes
«There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.»
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
«The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower... but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work.»
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
«This College of Agriculture was not established to serve or to magnify Cornell University. It belongs to the people of the State. The farmers of the State have secured it. Their influence has placed it here. They will keep it close to the ground. If there is any man standing on the land, unattached, uncontrolled, who feels that he has a disadvantages and a problem, this College of Agriculture stands for that man.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
«No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.»
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
«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.»
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
«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.»
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
«A garden is half-made when it is well planned. The best gardener is the one who does the most gardening by the winter fire.»
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
«When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.»
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
«One never makes the quest unless the mind is open at the start. Herein does this mind differ from the advocate who must prove a case, from that of a preacher who must support a dogma, from that of the politician who must defend a party, from that of an organization that must enforce a policy. There are no parties in science.»
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
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