Children Quote by Vita Sackville-West

“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of growing and…

— Shirley Jackson

“Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty, Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Behind her the sun was still shining, so that every grove and every single tree between her and the storm blazed ardent and vivid,…

— Philip Pullman

“Cassandra continued her obstacle course along the wall, hoping to find a gate or a door, anything permitting entry. The sun was rising in…

— Kate Morton

“It was a garden, a walled garden. Overgrown but with beautiful bones visible still. Someone had cared for this garden once. The remains of…

— Kate Morton

“Wherever her feet pass, white flowers part the grass.”

— L.J. Smith

“Her childhood had been magical, hours spent in ecstatic loneliness in the apple orchard, dreaming of foreign lands and wild adventures. Everything was new,…

— Kathy Hepinstall

“When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way.…

— Roman Payne

“She loved everything about the forest, from its perfectly contained cycle of life and death to the soft light that peeked through the tree…

— Christiana Miller

“So he raced from dogwood to blossoming peach. When they thinned out he headed for the cherry blossoms, then magnolia, chinaberry, pecan, walnut and…

— Toni Morrison

“She pronounced each word carefully, as though she was tasting fruit. The words of her poems were a most private and fragrant orchard.”

— Pat Conroy

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun…

— Zora Neale Hurston