"Leaf by Niggle" Quotes
A humble artist's unfinished work takes on a life of its own in a vivid and enchanting tale of creativity and redemption.
fantasy | 22 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots.
I have not much hope that Gaffer Gamgee will ever see the inland sea. He is too old now, and the land is too far away, and there is a fence around the Shire.
It was a Tree. And suddenly he was struck with the thought that all the trees he had ever worked on were not really alive.
Some of his pictures he liked better than others; but none of them he ever finished.
It is a gift. It is a gift. A gift to last for ever, and it is good.
No, what he had been really thinking of all these years was Botany.
All the same, he continued to sketch and to paint and to collect plants.
And the light came through the windows and fell upon the painted canvas, and Niggle went on painting with both hands, in the broad daylight.
The leaves became quite a burden to him, and a nuisance.
I have been too much on the outside of it. I have observed it, but I have not lived in it.
