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

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

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2019-08-27

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

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

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2019-08-22

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

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

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2019-08-13

“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.”

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

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2019-05-15

“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.”

from The Apple-Tree

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2019-04-13

" ...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."
from York State Rural Problems by L.H. Bailey, 1913

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2019-03-19

“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.”

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

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2019-02-09

“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.”

1918

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2019-02-07

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

from The Holy Earth by L.H. Bailey

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

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2019-01-15

"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."

from Midwinter by L.H. Bailey, 1916

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2018-12-29

"If I were to write a motto over the gate of a garden, I should choose the remark that Socrates is said to have made as he saw the luxuries of the market, 'How much there is in the world that I do not want.'"

from Manual of Gardening by L.H. Bailey, 1910

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2018-12-15

"Particularly it is good to celebrate the yearly bounty."

from The Holy Earth by L.H. Bailey, 1915

Available in the forthcoming anthology, Marvels at our Feet: A Gardener’s Companion (Comstock-Cornell University Press, title tentative).

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2018-11-22