Liberty Hyde Bailey
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"Liberty Hyde Bailey" was an United States/American Horticulture/horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.

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Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to partake in the journey, and to experience its goodness. We may cooperate rather than rebel. We should try to find the meanings rather than to be satisfied only with the spectacles. My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

We are now devoting ourselves to science. I am afraid some of us feel that science will give us final solutions - better bases for philosophy, an ideal groundwork for satisfactions, for enjoyment. But it is doubtful whether the mind of man can ever understand the universe. For every puzzle that we uncover and solve, two more appear that were hidden.

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.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

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