11 Quotes By Liberty Hyde Bailey


When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
Liberty Hyde Bailey on alone

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 time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
Liberty Hyde Bailey on dreams

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
Liberty Hyde Bailey on education

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 on gardening

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 on gardening

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 on good

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey on happiness

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
Liberty Hyde Bailey on happiness

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.
Liberty Hyde Bailey on knowledge

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey on religion

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
Liberty Hyde Bailey on travel