The Chinese Garden Quotes

“I could not detach myself from it and readily rendered up my personality to its peculiar power. It could not restrain my growth, but, like the iron bands encircling the trees, it could and did mark me.”
― Rosemary Manning, The Chinese Garden

“I came to love my surroundings so deeply that I became a slave to them. For a few years after I had left school I felt compelled at intervals to return there, not to see anyone, but to renew my relationship with the place, with the shrubberies deep in the leaves of many seasons, the statuesque elms, the derelict park. It possessed me, though I had the illusion of possessing it. I can remember having this strong feeling of possession quite consciously; of saying to myself, as I stood alone on the grass: I belong here. This is my place. This is where my roots are.”
― Rosemary Manning, The Chinese Garden