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

- Mabel Osgood Wright

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

- Mabel Osgood Wright

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

- 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

it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

- Mabel Osgood Wright

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

- 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 can ne…

- 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

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

- Mabel Osgood Wright