Because of the selection that the author had made of them, because of the spirit of faith in which my mind would exceed and anticipate his printed word, as it might be interpreting a revelation, these scenes used to give me the impression-one which I hardly ever derived from any place in which I might happen to be, and never from our garden, that undistinguished product of the strictly conventional fantasy of the gardener whom my grandmother so despised-of their being actually part of Nature herself, and worthy to be studied and explored.
Izan ere, autoreak haiexek aukeratzeko egina zuèn hautuari esker, nire pentsamendua haren hitzari errebelazio bat bailitzan oles egitera zihoakiòn fedeari esker, iruditzen zitzaidan haiek Naturaren beraren parte egiazko bat zirela, ikertzea eta sakontzea merezi zuena-inpresio hori, aldiz, apenas eragiten zidalarik benetan aurkitzen nintzèn herrialdeak, eta batez ere gure lorategiak, berau ez baitzen gure amonak mespretxatzen zuèn lorazainaren fantasia xuxenaren emaitza xarmarik gabea baizik.