Liberty Hyde Bailey

“The farmer is the first and most important of all manufacturers.”

“To be a botanist is to be a man of science, but to be a gardener is to be an artist.”

“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.”

“The final measure of a man is the sense of his responsibility.”

“The ultimate good of the farmer is the good of all of us.”

“A man's love of the country is not a sentiment, but a passion.”

“Let us have a place where we can be quiet and think.”

“The open country is the first and the last of all the arts.”

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.”

“One's own garden is a great refuge, a solace, and a delight.”

“We must not judge of a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.”

“The man who has a garden is a man who has a future.”

“The satisfactions of the grandmother's garden are not those of the exhibitor's table. They are the abiding memories of the feelings it awakens.”

“One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs a lot of practice to be a good one.”

“Every natural object is a conductor of divinity.”

“The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain of the stupidity of his helpers, of the ingratitude of mankind, or of the inappreciation of the public.”

“The love of nature is a passion for the object, not for the sentiment or the emotion that it may excite.”

“There is a personality in a garden, as there is in a person.”

“A garden is a place to find oneself.”

“Education should be a lifelong process, not one that stops when we get a diploma.”