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

-Liberty Hyde Bailey

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"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."

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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."

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

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"Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion."

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