Henry Mitchell Quotes

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• 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 starts…
• Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.
• 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 with…
• Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.
• Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.
• By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling…
• Your garden will reveal yourself.
• 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…
• Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.
• All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
• Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of October,…
• Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question…
• The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.

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