There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. -Liberty Hyde Bailey Happiness
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. -Liberty Hyde Bailey Hope
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. -Liberty Hyde Bailey Good
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. -Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardening
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. -Liberty Hyde Bailey Education
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. -Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardening