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“The nature-desire may be perpetual and constant, but the garden-desire returns with every new springtime.”

#DailyLHBailey, from “A Reverie of Gardens” by L. H. Bailey, 1901

Also in The Liberty Hyde Bailey #GardenersCompanion from @CornellPress, here: https://t.co/83AOhEcNDr

1/ “The fruit-tree in full load is one of the marvelous objects in nature...It is a very sermon in liberality."

#DailyLHBailey, from The Garden Lover by L. H. Bailey, 1928

“The value of a garden, as of every other good thing, is in the pleasant impulse as much as in the final product.”

#DailyLHBailey, from “A Reverie of Gardens” by L. H. Bailey, 1901

Available in The Liberty Hyde Bailey #GardenersCompanion (@CornellPress)—https://t.co/83AOhEcNDr

“It was the difference between a willing horse and a balky one. If a person wants to show his skill, he may choose the balky plant: but if he wants fun and comfort in gardening, he had better choose the willing one.”

#DailyLHBailey, from Garden-Making by L. H. Bailey, 1898

“In winter and in summer, and in the months between, my apple-tree is a great fact. It is a character in the population of my scenery, standing for certain human emotions. The tree is a living thing, not merely a something that bears apples.”

#DailyLHBailey, from The Apple-Tree

" ...if we are to effectualize the lives of others, we must open their minds to the meaning of the common world in which they live."
#DailyLHBailey from York State Rural Problems by L.H. Bailey, 1913

#world #philosophy #environment

“There is much speculation as to why flowers ever came into the world or what necessary utility they are to plants. But we are free to accept a fact; and flowers are facts.”

#DailyLHBailey, from The Garden Lover by L. H. Bailey, 1928

#GardenersCompanion #lhbailey

“A democratic society can exist only on the basis of active and enthusiastic public service. […] The service of democracy is not the blind allegiance to an autocrat, whether that autocrat is a state, a party, or a king. Otherwise it is only subjugation.”

#DailyLHBailey, 1918

"If the earth is holy, then the things that grow out of the earth are also holy."

#DailyLHBailey, from The Holy Earth by L.H. Bailey

Centennial edition with new foreword by #WendellBerry available here: https://t.co/ehhgrCTdoC

#lhbailey #libertyhydebailey #holyearth #Earth

"To many persons these strong alternations of the seasons emphasize and punctuate the life. They are the mountains and the valleys. The winter is a part of the naturalist's year."

#DailyLHBailey, from Midwinter by L.H. Bailey, 1916

#winter #season #nature #GardenersCompanion