“ 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. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ To people who grumbled at the weather he recommended a garden, as the best of remedies for that commonest of melancholies, for there is no weather that did not suit some plant. In the hottest and driest time the portulacas are burning red in the sand… ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ This College of Agriculture was not established to serve or to magnify Cornell University. It belongs to the people of the State. The farmers of the State have secured it. Their influence has placed it here. They will keep it close to the ground. If there is any man standing on the land, unattached, uncontrolled, who feels that he has a disadvantages and a problem, this College of Agriculture stands for that man. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ Take out of nationalism the blind prejudice, the over-organization, the self-interest for territory and for gold, and you remove its fangs. You then have left a political system for common betterment, a community of ideals, concrete enthusiasms, a means of effective training, racial and geographical cohesions, and programs to direct the lives of the people. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to partake in the journey, and to experience its goodness. We may cooperate rather than rebel. We should try to find the meanings rather than to be satisfied only with the spectacles… ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower… but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to partake in the journey, and to experience its goodness. We may cooperate rather than rebel. We should try to find the meanings rather than to be satisfied only with the spectacles… ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to partake in the journey, and to experience its goodness. We may cooperate rather than rebel. We should try to find the meanings rather than to be satisfied only with the spectacles… ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower… but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ To people who grumbled at the weather he recommended a garden, as the best of remedies for that commonest of melancholies, for there is no weather that did not suit some plant. In the hottest and driest time the portulacas are burning red in the sand… ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
- 789
“ Take out of nationalism the blind prejudice, the over-organization, the self-interest for territory and for gold, and you remove its fangs. You then have left a political system for common betterment, a community of ideals, concrete enthusiasms, a means of effective training, racial and geographical cohesions, and programs to direct the lives of the people. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
- 4K
“ The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower… but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ One never makes the quest unless the mind is open at the start. Herein does this mind differ from the advocate who must prove a case, from that of a preacher who must support a dogma, from that of the politician who must defend a party, from that of an organization that must enforce a policy… ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ I have no patience with the doctrine of pure science, that science is science only when it is uncontaminated by application in the arts of life; and I also have no patience with the spirit that considers a piece of work to be legitimate only as it has direct bearing on the arts and affairs of men. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ This College of Agriculture was not established to serve or to magnify Cornell University. It belongs to the people of the State. The farmers of the State have secured it. Their influence has placed it here. They will keep it close to the ground. If there is any man standing on the land, unattached, uncontrolled, who feels that he has a disadvantages and a problem, this College of Agriculture stands for that man. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ To people who grumbled at the weather he recommended a garden, as the best of remedies for that commonest of melancholies, for there is no weather that did not suit some plant. In the hottest and driest time the portulacas are burning red in the sand… ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ The name of the subject is not fundamentally important. All subjects may be made the means of developing a man. What we call culture is not the result of a line of study, so much as the result of association with educated and sensitive persons. A well educated mind has a broad outlook… ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ To people who grumbled at the weather he recommended a garden, as the best of remedies for that commonest of melancholies, for there is no weather that did not suit some plant. In the hottest and driest time the portulacas are burning red in the sand… ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ This College of Agriculture was not established to serve or to magnify Cornell University. It belongs to the people of the State. The farmers of the State have secured it. Their influence has placed it here. They will keep it close to the ground. If there is any man standing on the land, unattached, uncontrolled, who feels that he has a disadvantages and a problem, this College of Agriculture stands for that man. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to partake in the journey, and to experience its goodness. We may cooperate rather than rebel. We should try to find the meanings rather than to be satisfied only with the spectacles… ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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