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Show INHERENT LOVE OF THE SOIL Characteristic That. Is the" Most Deep . y planted In Mortals. The first man was a gardener, w aro told. Certain It is that the fir men wore tillers of the soil, after tbej ceased U be wandering warriors. That is where we get our love of nature, na-ture, declares a writer in the Kansas City Journal. That is why we build parks and have flowers clambering about our premises. That is why we aro strangely at peace when we get out Into the mountains and lose ourselves our-selves among the fragrant woods. That is why we loathe at times tho smell of paint that is on civilization and long for the perumo of the life that is close to the green leaves and the wild flowers. That is why we are no happy wheu wo camp out and why wo are so reluctant to return. That is why our earliest recollections of the "old farm" are the sweetest and ten-derest ten-derest of our lives. That is why we crack a Joke at the "simple life" and "back to nature" and all that when somebody is around and why we know, away down in our hearts, that tho simple life is the life most worth living and that we cannot get close to anything sweeter or purer than nature, na-ture, "Mother" Nature, whose sons and daughters we are, from whom we may wander far, but to whom we return re-turn aa prodigals, finding the prodigal's prodi-gal's welcome . and the prodigal's peace.. |