QUERCUS ALBA 



fact that a man or men could not 

 have been present to record the 

 sequence of incidents running 

 through generations of human lives 

 can not alter their fundamental 

 truth. Unlike those of man, the 

 biographies of plants and of so- 

 called lower animals have nothing 

 to explain or to render con- 

 sistent. Their lives are an open 

 page to which a simple knowl- 

 edge and love of Nature are the 



cipher-key. 



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