Henry Mitchell Quotes

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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.

Henry Mitchell
Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

Henry Mitchell
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.

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

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

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

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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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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 wondering if it's too late.

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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 of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point.

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

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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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The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.

Henry Mitchell