Allen Lacy Quotes

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

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.

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

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.

Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

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

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.

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.

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

One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.

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.

In a well-made garden every day is new.

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.

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

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

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

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