How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Accordingly after tea Mrs. Rachel set out; she had not far to go; the big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynde's Hollow. To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further.
Matthew Cuthbert's father, as shy and silent as his son after him, had got as far away as he possibly could from his fellow men without actually retreating into the woods when he founded his homestead. Green Gables was built at the furthest edge of his cleared land and there it was to this day, barely visible from the main road along which all the other Avonlea houses were so sociably situated. (1.7)
Hmm, the location of Matthew's farm is similar to Matthew's personality, isn't it? Matthew likes to keep to himself and do his own thing on the edge of society.
Quote #2
Below was a little valley and beyond a long, gently-rising slope with snug farmsteads scattered along it. From one to another the child's eyes dared, eager and wistful. At last they lingered on one away to the left, far back from the road, dimly white with blossoming trees in the twilight of the surrounding woods. Over it, in the stainless southwest sky, a great crystal-white start was shining like a lamp of guidance and promise. (3.71)
With that star in the sky, it's almost like the natural world is guiding Anne to her new home.
Quote #3
"Oh, I like things to have handles even if they are only geraniums. It makes them seem more like people. How do you know but that it hurts a geranium's feelings just to be called a geranium and nothing else? You wouldn't like to be called nothing but a woman all the time. Yes, I shall call it Bonny." (4.36)
Anne and nature are like BFFs. To Marilla, plants are for decoration, maybe even nourishment. But Anne sees plants as alive, with full personalities.