110 THE HUMAN SIDE OF PLANTS 
your years of life!” But the tree is telling, tellng 
much that we can understand; and who can 
say that it is not telling much more, its whole story, 
to those whose ears are attuned to its whisperings? 
We have learned to read many things that the 
plants have written; perhaps the time will come 
when there will be some soul, sufficiently unwarped 
by the artificialities of humanity, to open itself in 
all simplicity and naturalness to the communings of 
the plants, and so understand and interpret those 
myriads of unknown things, which they are striving 
to make us comprehend! 
