There’s always a lot of magic, but our way of seeing it is very small and we mostly just call it Nature.

Why, we are not at all surprised that we can pick up an apple in autumn that was a pink flower in the spring.

That’s natural magic and we don’t really notice it.

Pat O’Shea, 1931 – 2007, Irish children’s fiction writer, The Hounds of the Mórrígan