Alan Chadwick Quotes & Sayings

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created. — Alan Chadwick

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. — Alan Chadwick

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows. — Alan Chadwick

A good gardener looks at every plant every day. — Alan Chadwick

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. — Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow. — Alan Chadwick

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance. — Alan Chadwick

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction. — Alan Chadwick

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work. — Alan Chadwick

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener. — Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue! — Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible. — Alan Chadwick

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times. — Alan Chadwick

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener. — Alan Chadwick

I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines. — Alan Chadwick

The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology. — Alan Chadwick