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 OslerThere 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 OslerGreen thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.
Mirabel OslerSurely 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