Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The sooner the gardener loses certain kinds of innocence the better, and there is no better place to begin than with the weather.” — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
