Brotherhood Quote by Mabel Osgood Wright

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

— Mabel Osgood Wright

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

— Mabel Osgood Wright

even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

— Mabel Osgood Wright

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

— Mabel Osgood Wright

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

— Mabel Osgood Wright

Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

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