Liberty Hyde Bailey

Scientist

1858-03-15

Quotes by Liberty Hyde Bailey

• 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 diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

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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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• 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.

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• When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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

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

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