it over his back in preparation for battle. Only if these warnings go 

 unheeded will he release his unpleasant scent. 



When in their own outdoors you have watched a deer or a squirrel 

 or a "butterfly, you want to protect our wildlife and our plants and the 

 little things that fly or crawl. Human, insect, plant and animal life are 

 bound together in a great, eternal chain. Scientists know that these 

 individual links cannot be weakened or severed without great harm and 

 danger to the whole. The hand of the Almighty is in each one of these, 

 seeing to it that there is this miracle of balance and order. 



That is why I think of my apple tree community as a consecrated 

 altar in God's temple. 



