Enchanted Gardens are a fascination for all with a touch of the child and romance still lurking in their hardened adult imagination.

What makes us want to leave the world of fantasy to become boring ordinarians.

Why do we flee so quickly away from that world where all is fun and magical.

And too late we come to realise that what we were fleeing is often what makes life bearable

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Magic is the Spring…  Like a beautiful woman unfolding from an enchanted slumber, the Earth sings her song of love in May. Wandering on winding roads, we left the city core behind us, and drove until we reached an enchanted wood. Stepping along stone paths , not knowing where we went, we walked as if beckoned by a wood nymph or siren. Whispering with the voices of opening flowers, she welcomed us, calling  us to her, until we reached a hidden grove .

Awestruck we  stepped into  an enchanted garden…
Now only the fragrance of a plucked hyacinth and captured images recall the beauty that lives in a place hidden, full of secrets, full of unspoken promises; waiting for lovers, and oblivious to the illusion of time

And so out of curiosity this blog is born and published – with miscellaneous bric brac that catches my attention. Browse and enjoy…………

A life without curiosity is quite simply a boring life. It’s the power of the curious mind that has made humans as advanced and as imaginative as we find ourselves today. Perhaps the following quotes can spark your own curiosity

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
S. Leonard Rubinstein

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Richard Whately

A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
Smiley Blanton

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Arnold Edinborough

Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was: curiosity.
Jim Morrison

Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Dr. Linus Pauling

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
Martha Stewart

If you really want to succeed, you’ll have to go for it every day like I do. The big time isn’t for slackers. Keep up your mental stamina and remain curious. I think that bored people are unintelligent people.
Donald Trump

Only the curious have something to find.
unknown

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens

Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
Saint Augustine of Hippo

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

People die when curiosity goes.
Graham Swift

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
Plato

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

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