The Heart of a Garden

Timeless Treasures

Dreamily evocative photography conjures up childhood memories of secret gardens. With a literary quotation, or excerpt of poetry, on the reverse about the nature of time/memories.

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Photography: the Heart of a Garden

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Code: T101	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. These words are those of Pulitzer prize-winning US journalist Hal Boyle. “Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.”

Code: T102	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. Memories are of particular importance to American author and poet Cynthia Ozick, as her quotation shows. “What we remember from childhood we remember forever—permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”

Code: T103	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. The following passage is from American poet Emily Dickinson. Gardens and flowers were often a theme of her work, the former suggesting an otherworld, a realm of the imagination, whilst the latter were used symbolically to convey actions or emotions. One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Code: T104	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. The Scottish author of Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie, made this comment about the significance of memories. “God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.”

Code: T105	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. Quoted below is Isak Dinesen, a pseudonym of Karen Blixen, the Danish author of Out of Africa. Renowned for her traditional style of storytelling, Blixen drew on ideals of Romanticism to express a sense of destiny and courage that she believed to be absent from modern life. “Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...”

Code: T106	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. J. M. Barrie, the Scottish author and dramatist, is best known for his creation of Peter Pan. Subtitled The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, perhaps its protagonist would do well to heed Barrie’s sage words quoted below. “You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”

Code: T107	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. The following words are those of American author and clergyman Henry van Dyke—his hymns and poetry expressed not only his religious beliefs, but also a fascination with the ideals of Romanticism. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

Code: T108	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. Henry David Thoreau, quoted below, was a philosopher and naturalist, who rebelliously advocated civil disobedience as a counter to an unjust government. He is perhaps most famous for Walden, a book that reflects his belief in the importance of simple living, in transcending the perils of modern civilisation and getting back to nature. “The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.”

Code: T109	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. Controversial philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is typically provocative concerning the value of memory. “Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.”

Code: T110	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. These stirring words were spoken by activist and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. “The time is always right to do what is right.”

Code: T111	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. An extract from T. S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton asks us to consider what might have been, paths that we could have chosen, the endless possibilities of life. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.

Code: T112	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. “If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.” Chinese Proverb

Code: T113	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. The acclaimed writer Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. The words below reflect a common theme of his works—the frailty of humankind. “Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”

Code: T114	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” Proverb

Code: T115	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. Comedic writer Douglas Adams will always be a hero to fans of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. His publishers must have felt a little more ambivalent however; Adams was notoriously late handing in manuscripts. Perhaps his excuse was the following: “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

Code: T116	Dreamlike photography combined with a thought-provoking quotation, or excerpt of poetry, chosen especially by the author of the Heart of a Garden. Below are some wise words from C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia—a series that expressed his deep-founded love for the natural world and fascination with mythology. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

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