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Carrie Alexander

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“Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter.”
― Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

tags: spring, trees

18 likes

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: perspective, positive-attitude

3198 likes

“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

847 likes

“Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals.”
― Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

tags: balance, giving, plant, tree

12 likes

“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

tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring

1407 likes

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