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Garden Quotes by Henry Mitchell
- 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…
- 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.
- 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,…
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- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. — Margaret Atwood
- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
- That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. — Alfred Austin
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. — Alfred Austin
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon