' ' There lives and works 



A soul iu all things, and that soul is God. 



The beauties of the wilderness are His, 



That makes so gay the solitary place, 



Where no eye sees them." 



"He" 



" in its case, 

 Russet and rude, folds up the tender germ 

 Uninjured, with inimitable art; 

 And, ere one flowery season fades and dies. 

 Designs the blooming wonders of the next." 



( Cowper. ) 



" Happy who walks with Him! Whom what he finds 

 In nature, from the broad majestic oak 

 To the green blade that twinkles in the sun. 

 Prompts with remembrance of a present God." 



(Cowper.) 



' ' There is a lesson in each flower, 

 A story in each stream and bower ; 

 In every herb on which you tread. 

 Are written words, which, rightly read ; 

 Will lead you from earth's fragrant sod. 

 To hope, to holiness, and God." 



(Davis.) 



•' When I look at the poor little herbs that arise out of the earth, the lowest of 

 vegetables, and consider the secret spark of life that is in them, that attracts, increases, 

 grows, and seminates itself and its kinds, the various virtues that are in them for the 

 food, medicine, and delight of more perfect creatures, my mind is carried up to the 

 admiration and adoration and praise of that God whose wisdom and power and influ- 

 ence and government is seen in these small footsteps of his goodness : so that, take 

 all the wisest, ablest, and most powerful and knowing men under heaven, they cannot 

 equal that power and wisdom of his that is seen in a blade of grass. — " 



(SzrAI.ffale.) 



The carpet of flowers and of verdure spread over the naked crust of our planet 

 is unequally woven : it is thicker where the sun rises high in the ever — cloudless 

 heavens, and thinner towards the poles. Everywhere man finds some new plants to 

 his support and enjoyment." — (Humdoii). 



Within the tropics the wild luxuriance of nature is not lost even in the vicinity 

 of large cities, for the natural vegetation of the hedges and hill-sides overpowers ^ 

 in picturesque effect the artificial labour of man. * * * Houses within the tropics 



