14 Quotes by Henry Mitchell

Squirrels are blamed for many crimes they are not responsible for, but in this case honesty compels me to say it was the squirrels done it. I saw them.

Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.

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

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

Your garden will reveal yourself.

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.

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

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

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.