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Liberty Hyde Bailey

Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist and botanist who was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.:10–15 Bailey is credited with being instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, the nature study movement, parcel post and rural electrification. He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism.

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The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

Lawn, Man, Men, Morning, Night, Relief

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Acquaintance, Alone, Gets, Journey, Travel, Traveler

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

Effort, Extension, Institution, Needs, People, Securing

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.

Accept, Harvest, Land, May, Reap, Vision

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.

Ambition, Attention, Expended, Garden, Intentions, Plants Growing

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Beast, Earth, Muscular, Natural, World

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

Dream, Excellence, Labor, Oneself, Usefulness

One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.

Arbitrary, Garden, Mind, Novice, Rigid, Simplicity

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Decade, Education, Handicraft, Learning, Needs

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.

Acquires, Concerning, Contribution, Leave, Usual, World

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.

Children, Garden, Grow, Make, Matters, Opportunity

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

Contact, Heart, Life, Numbers, Soul, Sympathy

The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.

Evolution, Home, Life, Mean, Place

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

Done, Enterprise, Epochs, Essentials, Two

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

Depends, Feels, Happiness, Knows

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

Chosen, Garden, Joy, Kinds, Tools

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

Good, Inspiration, Live, Past, Progress

A garden is half made when it is well planned.

Garden, Half, Made, Planned