“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…
“It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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Still Life in Rose: No. 3
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Still Life in Rose: No. 2
“We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.” — Evelyn Underhill
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Still Life in Rose: No. 1
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Garden tales
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. — Ruth Stout It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens In the…
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fair play
“we’re all carnies, though some people are in denial. they want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and lights and animals and the dark sadness that lurks in the corners and beneath the rides and in the trailers after hours. so they ride the ferris wheel, and at the…
Read Morelove is a war
“do you know what hurts so very much? it’s love. love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. there are two things we can do when this happens. we can kill that love so that it stops hurting. but then of course part of us dies, too.…
Read Morei have been given a belly so that i might hunger. i have been given hunger so that i might be fed. — n.d. wilson
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