22 Quotes by Allen Lacy

An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.

Gardener’s, like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.

Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature’s weaklings, and nature is still a matter of survival of the fittest. The survival of variegated plants depends on human intervention.

I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you’ve got started it’s not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one.

But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.