““He can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and longing, and he can see the animal, as he sees the plant, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying and growing, not from physical pleasure, not from physical pain, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain and mightier than will and opposition. O, that man might more humbly receive this mystery, of which the earth is full, down to its smallest things, and earnestly bear it, endure it, and feel how terribly weighty it is, rather than taking it lightly.””
