Life Lessons (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Joseph Frank Thompson

9780656248902: Life Lessons (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0656248904 ISBN 13: 9780656248902

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Upon the surface of the sea, storm and calm, light and darkness, come and pass away in swift succession. But down in the depths eternal stillness reigns; and there, year after year through many centuries, the coral reef grows, because millions of tiny creatures give their lives to the process, and build their own bodies into the structure. 80, at last, a white island emerges from the blue ocean.

Then from the near or distant shore, borne on the winds or ﬂoating on the waves, come the germs of grass and fern, of plant and tree. Thus what was once a barren rock is bordered with vines, clothed with soft verdure, and gemmed with fairest ﬂowers. In its orchards the orange and the date ripen side by side; in its groves the bloom of thelife 16880118.

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