152 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



cramped. She is ever fighting against it. See 

 how the plants push up to the light and the air. 

 Notice how eagerly they clamber through and 

 over the bushy thickets, already so full of com- 

 peting life, and once free of the thick shrub- 

 bery, how luxuriantly they wave in the free- 

 dom of the upper air, bending and swaying 

 with every passing breeze and almost laughing 

 in the sunshine ! 



"For 'tis my faith that every flower 

 Enjoys the air it breathes." 



