Mirabel Osler Quotes

#1. I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.

Mirabel Osler

#2. 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.

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

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#4. There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.

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#5. 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.

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

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#7. Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.

Mirabel Osler

#8. Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.

Mirabel Osler