Henry Mitchell Quotes

#1. Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

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#2. A garden is not a picture, but a language.

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

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#4. 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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#5. Your garden will reveal yourself.

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#6. All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

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#7. Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

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#8. 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 like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

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#9. All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.

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#10. Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.

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#11. Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

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#12. 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 - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden.

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#13. Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down
and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

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