The Writer in the Garden Quotes

“Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.... I never see a great garden, (even in my mind's eye, which is the best place to see great gardens around here), but I think of the calamities that have visited it, unsuspected by the delighted gardener who supposes, "It must be nice to garden there."
It is not nice to garden anywhere. Everywhere there are startling winds, once in every five centuries floods....
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 there can be again.”
― Henry Mitchell, The Writer in the Garden

“Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.”
― Henry Mitchell, The Writer in the Garden

“I have a friend who can’t bear the sight of any flower whose stamens show. It may sound Victorian and quaint, but this antipathy makes her gardening exquisitely simple.”
― Jane Garmey, The Writer in the Garden

“I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors—not stray callers to be got rid of after a due administration of tea and”
― Jane Garmey, The Writer in the Garden