SWAYING TREE TOPS 



mon green. Their cheeks puff out, 

 and they are dark in the face as they 

 blow with all their might into the 

 fruit that hangs on the end of their 

 stems. 



There is no power that could blow 

 a pear out into real pear size and 

 shape but a pear tree. It is a won- 

 derful process, but how regular 

 natural quiet. When man blows 

 a glass bottle he makes smoke, noise, 

 dust, odor, and irregular hours of 

 labor. It is all artificial, and tears 

 down human strength. The pear 

 tree's work is natural, and builds up. 



Much of what we boast to be civili- 

 zation is exactly the opposite. Those 

 labors in life that interfere with 

 natural, healthly development should 

 not be called civilization, or if so 



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