“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.” IfsMindFirstsLittlesIdealsGardenPlantSimplicitySatisfiedPeace Of MindArbitraryNovices Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey
“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.” GrowsEffortAttentionAmbitionGardenLaborPlantIntentionPatientThriveGardeningGood IntentionsGardening And GodInspirational GardeningPlanting A GardenPlants Growing Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey
“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.” LovePersonsDoneJobsPoorEmotionGardenPlantGardeningGarden LoveGardening And GodInspirational GardeningPlanting A GardenPlants And Life Book:The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898 Source: The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898
“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.” GivingTryingChildrenMatterOpportunityGrowsGardenPlant Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey
“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.” WantDoeEarthWindBirdRainGardenPlantWarmInsectsWind And Rain Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey
“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.” KnowsKindMysterySeaLandRocksPlantVarietyStreamsVisibleFloatsCreepsOccult Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey
