NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
that happy day when man shall offer his 
brother man, not bullets and bayonets, but 
richer grains, better fruits and fairer flowers. 
“These lines were penned among the heights 
of the Sierras, while resting on the original 
material from which this planet was made. 
Thousands of ages have passed, and it still 
remains unchanged. In it no fossils or any 
trace of past organic life are ever found, nor 
could any exist, for the world-creative heat 
was too intense. Among these dizzy heights 
of rock, ice-cleft, glacier-plowed and water- 
worn, we stand face to face with the first and 
latest pages of world creation, for now we see 
also tender and beautiful flowers adding grace 
of form and color to the grisly walls, and far 
away down the slopes stand the giant trees, 
oldest of all living things, embracing all of 
human history; but even their lives are but as 
a watch-tick since the stars first shone on 
these barren rocks, before the evolutive forces 
had so gloriously transfigured the face of our 
planet home.” 
At the dedication of a park which had been 
given to the children of a neighboring town, 
in the suburbs of San Francisco, in memory 
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