Aspect Quote by 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

Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to…

— Mirabel Osler

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be…

— Eleanor Perenyi

Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a…

— Henry Mitchell

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

— Diane Dreher

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can…

— Audrey Hepburn

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground,…

— Allen Lacy

Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the…

— Richardson Wright

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult…

— Vita Sackville-West

“You're not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don't know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal…

— Rosalie Parker

The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.

— Beatrix Farrand