Mirabel Osler Quotes

At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.