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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.

~Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

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Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

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No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

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Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

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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.

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

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Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

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Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

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There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

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Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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