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

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

- 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

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

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 h…

- 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

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

- 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