22 Quotes by Allen Lacy

Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language – or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.

Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

In a well-made garden every day is new.

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.