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“Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.”

Made Adventure Keys Garden Riches Holes Fantastic Introvert Rabbits Wonderland Rabbit Holes

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.”

Way Wells Heart Age Past Emotion Half Feet Adventure Losing Garden Passionate Finished Gardening Absorbing Half Way

Book:The Glory of the Garden

Source: The Glory of the Garden

“The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.”

Simple Pleasure Adventure Mouths Garden Abundance Sensations Horns Tomatoes

Author:Muriel Barbery

“I have thought about posterity all my life. There isn't as much adventure and creative unfolding as there is in planting a garden and watching it grow. It's like watching the film grow, because you don't know what the seed of an idea is going to actually result in.”

Film Creative Adventure Garden Posterity

Author:Barbara Hammer

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Author:Marcel Proust

“...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”

People Thinking Needs Long Doe Book Helping Seems Might Spirit Enjoy Interest Our Lives Adventure Garden Winter Affair Oneself Evening Dull Full Life

Book:Listening Valley

Source: Listening Valley

“Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.”

Attention Growing Building Adventure Garden Seasons Constant Plant Endure Storm Gardener Great Adventure Vicissitudes

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."”

Ifs Inspirational Motivational Nature Adventure Tough Garden Mercy Snow Bikinis

Book:Conversations with Maya Angelou

Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou

“A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.”

Should Self States Time Change Journey Adventure Essentials Garden Constant Critical Experiments Owners Gardening Expansion Fluid Inquisitive

Author:H. E. Bates

“Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the loss of the world of senses is possible, I shall grieve for no person however once agonisingly desired and passionately beloved, for no emotional adventure however uplifting, for no success however warming, no infamy however exhilarating, for nothing half so much as I shall grieve to the loss of the earth itself, the soil, the seeds, the plants, the very weeds... It is a love almost overriding my love the words that could express that love.”

Ifs World Persons Earth Loss Pleasure Half Emotional Adventure Garden Plant Seeds Senses Uplifting Beloved Grieving Soil Dimensions Weed After Death Exhilarating Infamy

Author:Hal Porter

“When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one.”

World Looks Heart Country Whole Would Be Lasts Walks Adventure Flower Garden New World Enchanted

Author:Grace Kelly