ART IN THE PLANT WORLD 
Nature is the true and original sculptor. 
From her we learn our rules of symmetry and 
design. All her plant creations are finished 
with a faithfulness to artistic principles which 
is quite exact. Nor does she build houses with 
false exteriors. Her structures show forth the 
necessity of truth in real esthetic creation. 
Bartholdi’s exquisite Statue of Liberty, viewed 
from the interior, is an ugly, hollow tube. A 
stalk of corn not only has a pleasing exterior 
but is made up of symmetrically formed and 
packed interior cells. From a giant Redwood 
to a microscopic vegetable organism, every line 
and structual unit in the plant world is perfect 
in its inception and execution. 
Each plant, viewed as a whole, has its own 
peculiar style of structural beauty—the variation 
of line and form which stamps it with charm. 
This differentiation extends to all parts of the 
plant and gives character to leaves, stem, 
flowers and fruit. Marvellous is the art worked 
out in the minute parts. The tendril of the 
Passion Flower, the radicle of a Seedling 
Maple, the feathery hair on astalkof Mullein— 
all these are shaped according to the unknown 
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