10 
THOR) 3A;U (D7U-B OPN Bi i eraT ialy 
ON’ THE NEED FORBBE Aiea 
by J. W. Galbreath 
From the beginning of time man has looked “‘up to the 
hills from whence cometh his strength,’ up from his 
baser self, and the need for the essentials of existance, 
to the finer and nobler aspirations that advanced himself 
and his species as the supreme creation in God's 
universe. 
“He has made everything beautiful in its time.” 
(Eccl. 3:1la.) Poets and artists have expressed them- 
selves in verse, song and creations on canvas that have 
been an inspiration to many who took time out to 
meditate on the natural beauty all around us. It was 
Keats who left us the time-tested quotation, “A thing 
of beauty ts a joy forever.” 
The Chinese proverb would admonish us that 
man cannot live by bread alone. “Jf thou has two 
bowls of rice to feed thy belly, sell one and buy 
flowers to feed thy soul.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson 
advises us, ‘““Never lose an opportunity of seeing any- 
thing that ts beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. 
God's handwriting—a wayside sacrament. Welcome tt 
in every fair face, in every fair sky, tn every fair flower, 
and thank God for tt ts as a cup of blessing.”’ 
A hundred and fifty odd years ago a 17-year-old 
named William Cullen Bryant wrote a now-famous 
poem beginning: 
“To him who tn love of Nature holds 
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks 
A various language for his gayer hours 
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile 
And eloquence of beauty; and she glides 
Into his darker musings with a mild 
And healing sympathy that steals away 
The sharpness ere he ts awatce . 
We need to experience often the magic of nature 
to maintain that inner calm in the midst of confusion. 
Our natural world is full of unsensed wonders 
which escape our hurley-burley, rat-race to extinction. 
