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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 6 (October 1, 1929)

Nature's Garden Party

Nature's Garden Party.

But—what happens the moment your hand closes over those two inches of patriotically coloured cardboard emblazoned with a strange device and bearing cryptic signs and symbols. Suddenly you experience a feeling of freedom. The mystic talisman in your fist is the key to Nature's garden, where the wind blows fresh and free and is fragrant with the scent of bush and grass; where the hills dissolve into the blue mystery of the distance, where life abounds and nature cries aloud to you to Live; where existence is more than Existence, and the pulses pound with the desire to “follow the sun”; where the sky is open and the land is wide; where the sun welcomes you and the wind buffets you good-naturedly until the blood romps round your system like the good red vintage it ought to be.

All this you feel—and more, for when the train pulls in like a good old staunch friend you warm up to memory. Then you recollect past journeys and anticipations, experienced before you began to grow thin on top and thick round the meridian; Odysseys of youth, when Romance lay round the next bend and adventure beyond the next cutting; when the sweeping landscape was all yours to dream on, and you looked with eyes that saw beyond the far blue ranges; eyes that peopled the plains with galloping heroes, filled the valleys with deeds of derring-do, and the whole world with the vague unrest of Adventure.