When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
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Liberty Hyde Bailey
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About Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey was an American horticulturist and advocate for rural reform in the United States. He was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. During the Progressive Era, Bailey was instrumental in establishing the Cooperative Extension System, 4-H youth development programs, the nature study movement, parcel post, and rural electrification.:44 In 1903, Bailey founded the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and served as its first dean until 1…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Liberty Hyde BaileyScience may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
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.
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
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.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
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 true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
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 privile…
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.