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title: "1 Garden Thoughts Quotes By Mirabel Osler"
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> [When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost like a hibernating hedgehog I relish the security of being withdrawn from all that summer ferment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/when-the-ice-of-winter-holds-the-house-in-its-rigid-grip-when/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

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## More by Mirabel Osler

> [Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/sitting-in-your-garden-is-a-feat-to-be-worked-at-with-unflagging/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/as-for-garden-photographers-how-differently-they-see-things-with-what/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/green-thoughts-emerge-from-some-deep-source-of-stillness-which-the/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/surely-ruminating-and-lolling-squandering-slivers-of-time-as-you/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/reading-books-about-gardens-is-a-potent-pastime-books-nourish-a/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/have-you-ever-noticed-how-few-sitting-places-you-find-in-private/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [“I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/i-m-not-a-garden-expert-in-any-sense-of-the-meaning-only-someone-who/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/there-can-be-no-other-occupation-like-gardening-in-which-if-you-were/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/crouchers-move-through-a-garden-at-a-stoop-naming-gasping-horraying/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/there-is-no-end-to-be-written-neither-can-you-like-an-architect/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/at-the-heart-of-gardening-there-is-a-belief-in-the-miraculous/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/when-the-ice-of-winter-holds-the-house-in-its-rigid-grip-when/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

> [To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/to-be-able-to-walk-under-the-branches-of-a-tree-that-you-have-planted/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

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