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Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
They were kept as fallow gardens ... but thankfully there was always wild seed which arrived on the wind.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
I sat farther out on the window ledge, spraying him with birdseed as he stood below. “Oh—er, sorry,” I said. His face split into a white smile, and he said, “Aren’t you coming for your walk in the garden? The sun is getting high,” and he brushed cracked corn and sunflower seeds from his shoulders.
Robin McKinley • Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Those of the English who were then children owe to Hans Andersen more than to any of their own writers, that essential educational emotion which feels that domesticity is not dull but rather fantastic; that sense of the fairyland of furniture, and the travel and adventure of the farmyard.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
