Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again,… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks. — 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
