Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes
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.
Bailey, Liberty Hyde. The Country-Life Movement in the United States. The Macmillan Company, 1911, p. 201.
This quotation was used by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his presidential nomination acceptance speech in 1956.
Liberty Hyde Bailey was an American horticulturist and botanist who was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.:10–15 Bailey is credited with being instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, the nature study movement, parcel post and rural electrification. He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism.