Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the… — Mabel Osgood Wright Articles Copy Share Image
what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the… — Mabel Osgood Wright Chests Copy Share Image
Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by… — Mabel Osgood Wright Brotherhood Copy Share Image
Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even. — Mabel Osgood Wright Garden Copy Share Image
I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that… — Mabel Osgood Wright Compass Copy Share Image
It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing. — Mabel Osgood Wright Love Copy Share Image
even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early… — Mabel Osgood Wright Early morning Copy Share Image
what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang… — Mabel Osgood Wright Giving Copy Share Image
Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due? — Mabel Osgood Wright Dues Copy Share Image
Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in… — Mabel Osgood Wright Bronze Copy Share Image
the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different… — Mabel Osgood Wright Bears Copy Share Image
That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a… — Mabel Osgood Wright Developing Copy Share Image
Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting. — Mabel Osgood Wright Climate Copy Share Image
Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital. — Mabel Osgood Wright Education Copy Share Image
Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we… — Mabel Osgood Wright Coming out Copy Share Image
in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in… — Mabel Osgood Wright Cities Copy Share Image
it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background. — Mabel Osgood Wright Astonishing Copy Share Image
