NATURE STUDY SIS 



The commonest weed contains within itself enough 

 study for a lifetime, and is an epitome of all the 

 laws of plant-growth, an autograph from the hand 

 of the Creator, and as perfect in its fitness for its 

 work, and in its obedience to law, as the mighty 

 planets circling through infinity. All times, all 

 places, contain abundant evidence of Divine wisdom, 

 and even the pebble at our feet, could we but 

 unlock all the history wrapped up in it, would carry 

 us back to the childhood of the world, and reveal to 

 us mighty changes in progress some few millions of 

 years before the sons of men sprang into existence 

 at all. Those who wander forth and find nothing 

 to interest them, owe the loss not to Nature but to 

 themselves, while the love of Nature deepens as time 

 goes on, and an interest once developed in this 

 direction is ordinarily a possession that endures, 

 and which brightens the whole life. 



