Mirabel Osler Quotes

#1. Claire:dont do anything dumb or ill kill you myself
shane:ouch girl whatever happend to unconditional love around here

Rachel Caine

#2. With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mirabel Osler

#4. 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.

Mirabel Osler

#5. Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

Bob Edwards

#6. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Mirabel Osler

#8. My greatest fear is time wasted - a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact.

M.J. Chrisman

#9. I've never had an empty house. Ever.

Meredith Monk

#10. The immense importance of "adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour" (Titus ii. 10), and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers, has been far too much overlooked.

J.C. Ryle

#11. Apart from a thin film of life at the very surface of the Earth, an occasional intrepid spacecraft, and some radio static, our impact on the Universe is nil. It knows nothing of us.

Carl Sagan

#12. 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.

Mirabel Osler

#13. 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.

Mirabel Osler

#14. If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?

Elisabeth Elliot

#15. You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

David McCullough

#16. Remember, every treasure comes with a price.

Kevin Kwan

#17. The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of "Take to the Sky," but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain.

Katherine McIntyre

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

Mirabel Osler

#19. God can do amazing things if his people will take the time to pray about them.

Lynette Eason

#20. 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

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

Mirabel Osler

#22. Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#23. No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

J. Maarten Troost