Allen Lacy Professions : Author Born : 1935 Browse All Authors Top 27 quotes by Allen Lacy When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up. Allen Lacy esperanto names latin 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. Allen Lacy survival light white 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. Allen Lacy spring time memories Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn. Allen Lacy lawns weed doe 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. Allen Lacy garden joy people We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one. Allen Lacy cat fun two 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. Allen Lacy gardening common mean Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors