Nature's Kindergarten

The universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought with it
its own peculiar lesson.
The mountain teaches stability and grandeur;
the ocean immensity and change.
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds,
stars and flowers,
stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes
every form of animate or inanimate existence,
leaves its impress upon the soul of man.