May 28
Companions of the Way (Morning)Out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight.
AS the art of life is learned it will be found at last that all lovely things are also necessary: the wild flower by the wayside, as well as the tended corn; and the wild birds and creatures of the forest, as well as the tended cattle: because man doth not live by bread only, but also by the desert manna; by every wondrous word and unknowable work of God. Happy in that he knew them not, nor did his fathers know; and that round about him reaches yet into the infinite the amazement of his existence.
JOHN RUSKIN
THE NEEDFUL FLOWER