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Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers 



"The most helpful and sacred 

 work which can at present be 

 done for humanity, is to teach 

 people not 'how to better them- 

 selves,' but how to 'satisfy them- 

 selves' . . We shall find that the 

 love of nature, wherever 'it has 

 existed, has been a faithful and 

 sacred element of feeling . . . 

 Nature-worship will be found to 

 bring with it such a sense of the 

 presence and power of a Great 

 Spirit as no mere reasoning can 

 either induce or controvert ; . . 

 it becomes the channel of certain 

 sacred truths, which by no other 

 means can be converted." JOHN 

 RUSKIN. 



Field of Purple Lupine Growing in Yosemite National Park 



There, too, a thousand purple lupine-eyes 

 Dream in the purple of the summer skies. 



BLAND. 



