Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or … - Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds. . . Poetry should transport the public<br>to higher places<br>than other wheels can carry it.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

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.

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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

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