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

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

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 them…

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

- 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 ins…

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

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.

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

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…

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

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 …

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

A garden is half made when it is well planned.

- Liberty Hyde Bailey