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CAROLINA JASMINE. 
SEPARATION. 
How many exquisite harmonics arise on every side 
of us, from the association of plants with animals ! 
The butterfly embellishes the rose, the song of birds 
enliven the groves, the bee confers a new charm on 
the flower about which it buzzes, and from which it 
extracts its sweets. Thus, throughout all Nature, the 
insect is adapted to the flower, the bird to the tree, the 
quadruped to the plant. Man alone is capable of 
discovering these connexions, and he alone has the 
power of breaking that chain of consonance and 
love by which all things in the world are bound 
together. If with eager and imprudent hand he 
attempts to remove an animal from its native home, 
thinking only of his own convenience, he usually 
forgets the plant which would have reconciled his 
new slave to this separation from his birthplace. 
If he takes away a plant, he neglects the insect 
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