UNDER THE MAPLES 



everywhere. He knows how fluid and adaptive all 

 animate nature is. The trees are wrapped in a 

 kind of slumber in winter, and they are reservoirs 

 of living currents in summer. If all living bodies 

 came originally out of the sea, they brought a big 

 dower of the sea with them. The human body 

 is mainly a few pinches of earth salts held in 

 solution by several gallons of water. The ashes 

 of the living tree bulk small in comparison with 

 the amount of water it holds. Yes, "the slum- 

 bering and liquid trees." They awaken from 

 their slumber in the spring, the scales fall from 

 their buds, the fountains within them are un- 

 sealed, and they again become streams of living 

 energy, breaking into leaf and bloom and fruit 

 under the magic of the sun's rays. 



