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"Too often, we fail to appreciate the complexity of plants or only think of them as environmental decorations, merely ornaments. Plants do bring beauty to our everyday lives and travel adventures. However, plants do much more than merely lead the lives of plastic flowers. Obviously, all plants are not alike. A nature scene would be strange if all the trees were oaks and if all the oaks had only so many leaves on so many limbs. Someone has said God's fingerprints are seen everywhere in the handiwork he has created. Nowhere is design so evident as in the microscopic world of the cell. Plant cells are among the most fascinating cells in all of life in appearance, in complexity, in function, in design--showing God's great care and wisdom in even the lowly plant."

ŠAlpha Omega Publications.

The modifications mankind have undergone, and are still undergoing, result from a law underlying the whole organic creation; and provided the human race continues, and the constitution of things remains the same, those modifications must end in completeness. As surely as the tree becomes bulky when it stands alone, and slender if one of a group; as surely as a blacksmith's arm grows large, and the skin of a laborer's hand thick; as surely as the eye tends to become long-sighted in the sailor, and short-sighted in the student; as surely as a clerk acquires rapidity in writing and calculation; as surley as the musician learns to detect an error of a semitone amidst what seems to others a very babel of sound; as surely as a passion grows by indulgence and dimisishes when restrained; as surely as a disregarded conscience becomes inert, and one that is obeyed active; as surely as there is any meaning in such terms as habit, custom, practice; -- so surely must the human faculties be moulded into complete fitness for the social state; so surely must evil and immorality disappear; so surley must man become perfect.
- Herbert Spencer