When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
From Liberty Hyde Bailey
There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
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.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
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