Asking Quote by Eleanor Perenyi

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set…

— Dorothy Gilman

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Nature abhors a garden.

— Michael Pollan

I feel like there's no such thing as failure. When something doesn't go the way I want it to, I learn from it, and…

— Thomas Jones

Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to…

— Barbara Damrosch

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

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

— Anonymous

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser,…

— Rupert Everett

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

— Napoleon Hill

Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.

— Jane Garmey

When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough, keep on, and a larger thing then you were seeking…

— Wallace D. Wattles

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

— Mary McCarthy