110 THE HUMAN SIDE OF PLANTS 



your years of life!" But the tree is telling, telling 

 much that we can understand; and who can 

 say that it is not telling much more, its whole story, 

 to those whose ears are attuned to its whisperings? 

 We have learned to read many things that the 

 plants have written; perhaps the time will come 

 when there will be some soul, sufficiently unwarped 

 by the artificialities of humanity, to open itself in 

 all simplicity and naturalness to the communings of 

 the plants, and so understand and interpret those 

 myriads of unknown things, which they are striving 

 to make us comprehend! 



