| Land of Green Gables |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery, who wrote Anne of Green Gables and 19 other books, lived the first 36 years of her life on Prince Edward Island, just off the eastern coast of mainland Canada. The lighthouses on this page are from LMM's "neighborhood" - Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (with the exception of one from Maine). LMM loved the sea and made many references to it in her writing. In describing the beauty of her island and the natives' loyalty to it, she wrote in The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career: "Great is our love for [the sea]; its tang gets into our blood; its siren call rings ever in our ears; and no matter where we wander in lands afar, the murmur of its waves ever summons us back in our dreams to the homeland." |
| Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. -- LLM, Anne of Green Gables |
| But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do. -- LMM, Anne's House of Dreams ~ ~ ~ Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. -- LMM, Anne of Green Gables ~ ~ ~ We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. -- LMM, Anne of Avonlea ~ ~ ~ People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? -- LMM, Anne of Green Gables |
| The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. -- LMM, Anne's House of Dreams |
| Human nature is not obliged to be consistent. -- LMM, Anne's House of Dreams |
| Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half as interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination |
| Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? -- LMM, Anne of Green Gables |
| The warm June sunshine was coming down through the trees, and through the shining window panes, making a tremulous mosaic upon Mrs. Andrews' spotless kitchen floor. Through the open door, a wind, fragrant from long wanderings over orchards, drifted in, and from the window, Mrs. Andrews could look down over a long valley sloping to a sparkling sea. -- LMM, Further |
| Green Gables, the farm on Prince Edward Island where the fictional Anne Shirley lived and where the real Lucy Maud Montgomery often spent time with relatives. |
| Above: Exhibit demonstrating the furniture and tools used by Lucy Maud Montgomery during the time she worked at the post office in Cavendish, on PEI. She, also, taught school and worked briefly for a newspaper, while writing Anne of Green Gables. Right: Lucy Maud Montgomery MacDonald |
| "Oh, Marilla," Anne exclaimed one morning, coming in with her arms full of gorgeous maple branches. "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?" LMM, Anne of Green Gables ~ ~ ~ There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. -- LMM, Anne of Avonlea ~ ~ ~ Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that evening. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it. -- LMM, Anne of Green Gables |
| The photos on this page are from a powerpoint show shared by an e-friend Whispers - Home Old New Orleans Friday's Journal |
| -- LMM, Anne of Green Gables |