--- title: "5 Gardener Quotes By Mirabel Osler" description: "5 Gardener quotes by Mirabel Osler. Plus more from Mirabel Osler and more Gardener sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbc/mirabel-osler-35732_aspect_surely-ruminating-and-lolling-squanderin_698123.jpg" --- > [Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbc/mirabel-osler-35732_aspect_surely-ruminating-and-lolling-squanderin_698123.jpg) > [Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/722/mirabel-osler-35732_benches_have-you-ever-noticed-how-few-sitting-pl_817173.jpg) > [There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/mirabel-osler-35732_behinds_there-can-be-no-other-occupation-like-ga_1236232.jpg) > [Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/mirabel-osler-35732_admiring_crouchers-move-through-a-garden-at-a-sto_1435461.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/905/mirabel-osler-35732_belief_at-the-heart-of-gardening-there-is-a-bel_2178192.jpg) ## Other authors on Gardener - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-breault-79554.jpg) Robert Breault 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gardener/robert-breault/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michael-pollan-67386.jpg) Michael Pollan 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gardener/michael-pollan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-vita-sackvillewest-93936.jpg) Vita Sackville-West 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gardener/vita-sackville-west/) - [Janet Macunovich 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gardener/janet-macunovich/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-delroy-lindo-28567.jpg) Henry Mitchell 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gardener/henry-mitchell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-karel-capek-55059.jpg) Karel Capek 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gardener/karel-capek/) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gardener/mirabel-osler/#itemlist", "name": "5 Gardener Quotes By Mirabel Osler", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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. 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