Quote by Byron J. Rees

“I am affected as if in a peculiar sense I stood in the laboratory of the Artist who made the world and me. I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe. You find this in the very sands an anticipation of the vegetable leaf. No wonder the earth expresses itself outwardly in leaves, it so labors with the idea inwardly. The atoms have already learned this law, and are pregnant by it. The feathers and wings of birds are still drier and thinner leaves. The very globe continually transcends and translates itself; and becomes winged in its orbit. Even ice begins with delicate crystal leaves, as if it had flowed into moulds. The whole tree itself is but one leaf; and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects.”