(30 quotes found)
“A garden is half-made when it is well planned. The best gardener is the one who does the most gardening by the winter fire.”
Liberty Hyde Bailey
“Fact is not to be worshipped. The life which is devoid of imagination is dead; it is tied to the earth. There need be no divorce of fact and fancy; they are only the poles of experience. What is called the scientific method is only imagination set within bounds. Facts are bridged by imagination. They are tied together by the thread of speculation. The very essence of science is to reason from the known to the unknown.”
“One’s happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.”
“Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”
“We are now devoting ourselves to science. I am afraid some of us feel that science will give us final solutions - better bases for philosophy, an ideal groundwork for satisfactions, for enjoyment. But it is doubtful whether the mind of man can ever understand the universe. For every puzzle that we uncover and solve, two more appear that were hidden.”
“There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.”
“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. My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams.”
