NATURE’S MANY PHENOMENA.
How marvelous and manifold are the workings of Nature! Her phenomena and secrets are ever subjects of intense study by the world’s greatest intellects.
Nature’s manifestations are mild, majestic, mighty, cold, calm, bounteous, benign, beneficent, beautiful, terrific, tender, temperate—in fact, every adjective in the English language could be employed to describe her full gamut of moods.
Some of us have heard the furious roaring of a blizzard and observed the enormous force and terrific speed of the tempest, leaving behind death and destruction in its wake. Many towns, large and small, have been swept out of existence by blizzards, tornadoes and cyclones.
And the silent, fructifying forces of Nature—how grand and beautiful beyond expression do they accomplish their work! “Great oaks from little acorns grow,” and from little, apparently insignificant seeds spring monarch trees of the forest, their crowns majestically waving three and four hundred feet in the air. The mysteries of life have yet been revealed to no man, and the artist has not lived who has been able to paint the picture, to catch the true color effects, that only Mother Nature can depict on a world wide canvas.