Perpetual Miracle

Go out into the garden and examine a seed; examine the same plant in the bud and in the fruit, and you must confess the whole process a miracle, a per- petual miracle. Take it at any period, make yourself as familiar with all the facts as you can at any period, and in each explanation there will be some step or appearance to be referred to the Great Creator; something not the effect of the sower’s deposit, nor of the waterer’s hope. It is not the loam, nor the gravel, it is not the furrow of the plougshare, nor the glare of the sun that calls greenness from the dust, it is the present power of him who said, “Seedtime and harvest shall not fail.”

Needs there, my brethren, any other book than this returning summer that reminds us of the first creation, to suggest the presence of God? Ralph Waldo Emerson 447