is making every grove a temple and every sun- 
rise a worship. She links the human soul to her 
work, and man rises to kinship with his creator. 
Nature is a generous teacher. The study is 
not burdensome nor difficult. She demands no 
scientific training. She makes it possible to know 
the flowers without botanical aid, and all her 
creative work without the hard climb up the steep 
cliffs of science. She asks only that man see and 
hear the things God has given to make the world 
and life beautiful. They who have the way of 
seeing and hearing these God-given things stand 
at the open gate of the King’s highway, heirs to a 
source of happiness others know not of. 
It is beyond man to know why we are made 
happy by the things seen and heard in nature, nor 
can man explain the many and varied feelings 
that course through the heart when we approach 
nature with loving appreciation. A simple song 
from the hedgerow, a comely flower from the 
wild will often give thoughts too deep for care- 
less comprehension — thoughts that lead to a 
closer fellowship with nature and nature’s God. 
“A thought that impels all thinking 
And lives through all things — 
Therefore am I a lover of the woods, 
Of the meadows and mountains, 
And all that we behold, 
From the green earth 
To the starry heavens.” 
Through phases of beauty man penetrates to 
the heart of nature where works the infinite. 
Through nature is presented the various and 
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