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.
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,_x000D_ Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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