Consequence Quote by Henry Mitchell

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

— Ken Thompson

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

— Henry Mitchell

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

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

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

— Jan Struther

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

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

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

— May Sarton

All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

— Allen Lacy

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor…

— Andrew Weil

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul.…

— William Lawson

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

— Janet Macunovich