Accepting Quote by Allen Lacy

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something…

— Vita Sackville-West

The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and…

— Susan Hill

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

— Monty Don

Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give…

— Robin Lane Fox

One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable.

— Elsa Bakalar

“We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of…

— Carol Deppe

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

— Francis Cabot Lowell

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

— Janet Macunovich

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

— Leslie Hall

Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who…

— Susan Hill

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be…

— Eleanor Perenyi

Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

— Allen Lacy