Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“The flowers are growing—the roots are stirring. That is the Magic.”
- Source
- The Secret Garden
- Date
- 1911
- Local voice
- Fictional character · Colin Craven
Meaning of “The flowers are growing—the roots are stirring. That…”
The children treat ordinary signs of spring growth as evidence of renewal, finding wonder in processes that begin below the visible surface.
Where does it come from?
The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXIII, “Magic.” Colin’s chant says that the flowers are growing and the roots are stirring, treating visible spring growth as part of the children’s imaginative “Magic” framework. The novel’s Magic language is literary and is not medical evidence.
Why the local voice matters
Colin uses the novel’s “Magic” rhetoric in The Secret Garden.
