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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: once the two great facts about vegetation. Where warmth is, and moisture?there also, the leaf. Where no warmth?there is no leaf; where there is uo dew?no leaf. 7. Look, then, to the branch you hold in your hand. That you can so hold it, or make a crown of it, if you choose, is the first thing I want you to note of it;?the proportion of size, namely, between the leaf and you. Great part of your life and character, as a human creature, has depended on that . Suppose all leaves had been spacious, like some palm leaves; solid, like cactus stem; or that trees had grown, as they might of course just as easily have grown, like mushrooms, all one great cluster of leaf round one stalk. I do not say that they are divided into small leaves only for your delight, or your service, as if you were the monarch of everything?even in this atom of a globe. You are made of your proper size; and the leaves of theirs: for reasons, and by laws, of which neither the leaves nor you know anything. Only note the harmony between both, and the joy we may have in this division and mystery of the frivolous and tremulous petals, which break the light and the breeze, ?compared to what, with the frivolous and the tremulous mind which is in us, we could have had out of domes, or penthouses, or walls of leaf. 8. Secondly; think awhile of its dark clear green, and the good of it to you. Scientifically, you know green in leaves is owing to 'chlorophyll, ' or, in English, to ' green-leaf.' It may be very fine to know that; but my advice to you, on the whole, is to rest content with the general fact that leaves are green when they do not grow in or near smoky towns; and not by any means to rest content with the fact that very soon there will not be a green leaf in England, but only greenish-black ones. And the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217072984 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217072984 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $22.72 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 242 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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