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Botanist

Liberty Hyde Bailey was an accomplished botanist born on March 15, 1858, and passed away on December 25, 1954. He made significant contributions to the fields of botany, including plant taxonomy, plant geography, and plant breeding.

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Famous Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes

“Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will next be there!”

Knows Next Wonder Tomorrow Spring Fairs Miracle Green Yesterday Brown Spares Springtime Wondrous Twigs April And Spring Welcome Spring Springtime Inspirational

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“I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.”

Knows Kind Mystery Sea Land Rocks Plant Variety Streams Visible Floats Creeps Occult

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“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.”

Knows Wells May Accepting Vision Land Seeds Grain Harvest Reap Successors

Book:York State Rural Problems

Source: York State Rural Problems

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

Knows Feels Depends

Book:The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature

Source: The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature