HOW NATURE CREATED THE ElRST PRANTS 8l 
laborers who dig all day with a shovel have strong backs 
and shoulders, mountain climbers have legs as hard and 
springy as wire. So with the insects, perhaps the simple 
exercises of probing for honey, of gathering pollen, re¬ 
peated day after day, hour after hour, have developed 
and created bees, certain flies and beetles, and all the 
moths and butterflies. 
How closely, then, the flowers and insects are related! 
If all the bees should die, our porches would soon be bare 
of honeysuckle; without flowers the butterflies would 
starve. Flowers and insects depend one upon another, 
and in their dependence we can see one more strand, the 
strongest strand, of that great web which knits us all 
together—earth and air, soil and water, plant, animal and 
man—Nature's Web of Fife. 
