Last week i finished reading the book 'The Secret Garden' I have seen the movie and i was just curious how the book read. It's a simple, uplifting, SPRING book!
'Unlock the magic of The Secret Garden'
I love how the children in the book come alive as they learn to appreciate the joys of the outdoors. The book to me confirms the power and importance of our children learning to love nature.
Everyday i walk out in our back yard and i love seeing the new growth of plants and the blooming of new flowers. It is refreshing! Penny is in awe every morning when she looks out the window and sees our dandelions in full yellow bloom. The weeds are beautiful in her eyes! She gets so excited and i gladly let her go pick a handful of yellow flowers and then she brings them to me to put in a vase :)
Oh, the things which happened in that garden! If you have never had a garden you can't understand and if you have had a garden you will know that it would take a whole book to describe all that came to pass there!
Power of Thoughts:
"In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live."
"WHERE YOU TEND A ROSE, MY LAD
A THISTLE CAN NOT GROW"
"One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and under the branches seems to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries. Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in some one's eyes."
You can read all the chapters of this book at this site: The Secret Garden
Happy Days in the Garden. I loved how Colin learned he had power over his thoughts, he came alive and was absorbed with radiant moments of watching all the changes in the garden.
Here's a post dedicated to taking time to watch all the changes of spring! The world is in it's happy moments of transformation and the happiness is contagious!
I love how the children in the book come alive as they learn to appreciate the joys of the outdoors. The book to me confirms the power and importance of our children learning to love nature.
Everyday i walk out in our back yard and i love seeing the new growth of plants and the blooming of new flowers. It is refreshing! Penny is in awe every morning when she looks out the window and sees our dandelions in full yellow bloom. The weeds are beautiful in her eyes! She gets so excited and i gladly let her go pick a handful of yellow flowers and then she brings them to me to put in a vase :)
Oh, the things which happened in that garden! If you have never had a garden you can't understand and if you have had a garden you will know that it would take a whole book to describe all that came to pass there!
Power of Thoughts:
"In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live."
"WHERE YOU TEND A ROSE, MY LAD
A THISTLE CAN NOT GROW"
"One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and under the branches seems to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries. Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in some one's eyes."
You can read all the chapters of this book at this site: The Secret Garden
Happy Days in the Garden. I loved how Colin learned he had power over his thoughts, he came alive and was absorbed with radiant moments of watching all the changes in the garden.
Here's a post dedicated to taking time to watch all the changes of spring! The world is in it's happy moments of transformation and the happiness is contagious!
1 comment:
I just read that book for the first time about a year ago and LOVED it! I completely agree with you. It's beautiful, simple, and so, so uplifting.
Have you read "A Little Princess" yet? I loved it just as much :)
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