Belief Quote by Mirabel Osler

If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin had no…

— Theodore Parker

Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Mirabel Osler

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe…

— Guy Laliberte

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

— John Steinbeck

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

— Hilary Mantel

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

— Thalassa Cruso

Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first…

— Charles Spurgeon

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

— Robert Breault