GOD IN THE TREES,
OR
THE
INFINIITE MIND IN NATURE
YOU are fortunate
if you love trees, and especially the
wild ones growing where the Great Creative
Force placed them, and independent of
man's care. For all things we call "wild"
or "natural" are nearer the
Infinite Mind than those which have been
enslaved, artificialized and hampered
by man. Being nearer the Infinite they
have in them the more perfect Infinite
Force and Thought That is why when you
are in the midst of what is wild and natural--in
the forest or mountains, where every trace
of man's works is left behind you feel
an indescribable exhilaration and freedom
that you do not realize elsewhere.
You breathe
an element ever being thrown off by the
trees, the rocks, the birds and animals
and by every expression of the Infinite
Mind about you. It is healthfully exhilarating.
It is something more than air. It is the
Infinite Force and Mind as expressed by
all these natural things, which is acting
on you. You cannot get this force in the
town, nor even in the carefully cultivated
garden. For there the plants and trees
have too much of man's lesser mind in
them--the mind which believes that it
can improve the universe. Man is inclined
to think that the Infinite made this world
in the rough, and then left it altogether
for him to improve,
Are we really
doing this in destroying the native forests,
as well as the birds and animals, which
once
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