Peter Smithers famous quotes

I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.
-- Peter Smithers

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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

I am proud of all of the products in the Ed Hardy family.

When it comes to do or die situations, Matt Hardy will not die.

I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.