Miscellaneous.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 158, 24 May 1909, Page 4

Miscellaneous.

A Lesson from Nature.

Nature does not seem to care much for the form of things. Her interest is all in the presence of the life and in the possibilities of usefulness. She doesn't care if the branch of the tree is not absolutely straight if only the lift? is there to cover it with leaves to make shade and drink in the water and air. The flowers are very irregular and the grass varying, and scarcely any two things alike. Nature seems not to mind it, but to be satisfied if the life is there. If there is no life,she tears the thing down as though it were of no more use. Nature is not at all careless about them. She is simply acting on such an immense scale that we do not see her great irregularities. We ought not to disregard the form of things in work, in society, in play. But the form is of far less consequence than the inner life and the outer use. And we may well learn a lesson from the springtime, when Nature lets the affluence of life atone for much crookedness and irregularity and covers it all over with glory and fruitage.