"Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence."

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Source : Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.41, Indiana University Press

Henry Mitchell

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“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”

Source : Remark at a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association, November 07, 1948.
“He also deeply distrusts vampires, as you had guessed yourself,â€ Bones added. â€œAside from that, all I heard was enough repetitions of â€˜how many chucks could a woodchuck chuckâ€™ to make me want to stake myself.”
“Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.”
“You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.”
“If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"”
“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value”
“Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.”
“Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.”

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