And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
Frances Hodgson BurnettRead
As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.
Interpretation
A garden represents hope and potential for the future, symbolizing life and vitality.
This quote suggests that having a garden is deeply intertwined with having aspirations and a sense of purpose. Gardens require care and cultivation, much like our dreams and futures; as long as we nurture them, we remain connected to life and possibility. When we invest in our gardens, we are essentially investing in our futures.
In practice
In a speech about community growth, one could say, 'As Frances Hodgson Burnett wisely noted, as long as one has a garden, one has a future.'
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?
As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.
At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.
April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
When you drink in nature through your senses, you deepen your awareness of the great silent intelligence flowing through all things. You nourish your mind, body, and spirit as you connect to the divine love of Being.
Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."
My religion is nature. Thatβs what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.
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