"I have great joy in the tulips...": A Helen Keller Quote in Honor of Earth Day

Helen Keller in the garden of her home, Forest Hills, New York, circa 1920

“I have great joy in the tulips and lilacs
which make my garden ‘look like the waking
of Creation.’ O the potent witchery of smell!
Leaves opening delicately on tree and rambler
and rose-bush tell me God has passed this way,
and I forget the disturbing nearness of the city
in the eternal miracle of a tiny garden
great with wonders.”

—Letter to Waldo Mac Eagar of the British Empire Society of the Blind
May 13, 1933

Recommended Links

• Helen Keller Quotations
• Helen Keller's Books, Essays, and Speeches
• Photographs of Helen Keller

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