Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we should belong, what sex, and all that, instead of placidly coming out of unconsciousness to find it all arranged!
Mabel Osgood Wrightin the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.
Mabel Osgood WrightThat is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky.
Mabel Osgood Wrighteven as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.
Mabel Osgood WrightLet everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.
Mabel Osgood WrightWhy has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.
Mabel Osgood Wright