Take a Stroll in the Gardens Take a Stroll in the Gardens
| I once believed a single line in a Chinese poem could change forever how blossoms fell For E.J.P., Leonard Cohen |
| View Valley Gardens in
Harrogate Read In a Chinese Garden Dream in a Japanese Garden Look at the Clouds Listen to the Birds Gaze at the planets Enter the Maze |
| And here were gardens bright with sinuous
rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Its garden, too, glowed with flowers:
hollyhocks had sprung up tall as trees, lilies had opened, tulips and roses were in bloom; the borders of the little beds were gay with pink thrift and crimson double daisies; the sweetbriars gave out, morning and evening, their scent of spice and apples. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte |
| We stayed there nearly a week: I and Sophie
used to walk every day in a great green place full of trees, called the Park; and there were many children there besides me, and a pond with beautiful birds in it, that I fed with crumbs. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte |
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| Some Books are to be Tasted, others to be Swallowed, and some few to be Chewed and Digested Essays 50, Francis Bacon |