Celia Thaxter Quote

The Genie in the Arabian tale is not half so astonishing [as a seed]. In this tiny casket lie folded roots, stalks, leaves, buds, flowers, seed-vessels, - surpassing color and beautiful form, all that goes to make up a plant which is as gigantic in proportion to the bounds that confine it as the Oak is to the acorn.


An Island Garden (p. 3), Houghton Mifflin Co. 1896


The Genie in the Arabian tale is not half so astonishing [as a seed]. In this tiny casket lie folded roots, stalks, leaves, buds, flowers,...

The Genie in the Arabian tale is not half so astonishing [as a seed]. In this tiny casket lie folded roots, stalks, leaves, buds, flowers,...

The Genie in the Arabian tale is not half so astonishing [as a seed]. In this tiny casket lie folded roots, stalks, leaves, buds, flowers,...

The Genie in the Arabian tale is not half so astonishing [as a seed]. In this tiny casket lie folded roots, stalks, leaves, buds, flowers,...