Roger Swain Quotes

Roger Bartlett Swain, known as "the man with the red suspenders", is most famous for hosting the television show, The Victory Garden on PBS. He was the host from the mid-1980s until 2001.

He graduated from Harvard College with B.A. in 1971 and M.A. in 1972 and went on to earn in 1977 a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Biology. From 1978 to 2008 he was writer and science editor at Horticulture Magazine. He is the author of five books: Earthly Pleasures, Field Days, The Practical Gardener, Saving Graces, and Groundwork. From 2005-06 he was the co-host of the television show People, Places, and Plants with Paul Tukey on HGTV. Roger was married for 31 years to Elisabeth Ward Swain, who died in February 2008. Wikipedia

✵ 5. February 1949

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Famous Roger Swain Quotes

“Doing your own gardening makes you much more aware of food cycles, what it takes to grow it, and what the range of food quality is.”

Roger Swain

[Van Tuyl, Laura, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 April 1989, Why His Garden Grows. Food that's safe and superior to store-bought is one reason; history is another. Interview: Roger Swain of 'Victory Garden', http://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0414/pswain.html]

“All that we can say, looking at the avocado pit, is that whatever swallowed it must have been big. As big as those fossil skeletons staring out at us from behind the dusty glass of museum cases.”

Roger Swain

p. 14 https://books.google.com/books?id=UutGAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=big
Field Days: Journal of an Itinerant Biologist (1983)

“When it comes to getting away, big pits are a handicap. A quarter-pound seed isn't going to be blown about by anything less than a hurricane, and in water an avocado pit sinks.”

Roger Swain

p. 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=UutGAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=handicap
Field Days: Journal of an Itinerant Biologist (1983)

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