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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
"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.'"
#DailyLHBailey, from Manual of Gardening by L.H. Bailey, 1910
"Particularly it is good to celebrate the yearly bounty."
#DailyLHBailey, 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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