Meadow and Mountain 



secret. In the pioneer days the prairie boy saw the beauty 

 and heard the music as he drove along the furrow. 



He who looks for beauty and listens for music will be 

 hunted of these wherever he goes. Those pioneer days were 

 all athrob with coming conquests. The plow behind the 

 oxen has been more civilizing than "The man behind the 

 gun." It is better to leave one's footprints growing green 

 with wheat and corn than to leave them red with pools of 

 blood. The plow, and not the sword, is the great symbol 

 of civilization. It is not more navies, but more navy beans 

 that we need. Let us have more shooting corn and fewer 

 shooting cannon. The plow sows harvests and scatters 

 gold in the furrows that it makes. The song of the sickle is 

 better than war songs. 



