“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”

“The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.”

“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”

“When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.”

“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”

“There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.”

“My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.”

“We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.”

“A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'"The husband, unlike the "manager" or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble.”