Soon the whole world, as in springtime, will change its
garb. The turning and falling of the autumn leaves is past; the bleakness of
the winter time is over. The new year hath appeared and the spiritual
springtime is at hand. The black earth is becoming a verdant garden; the
deserts and mountains are teeming with red flowers; from the borders of the
wilderness the tall grasses are standing like advance guards before the cypress
and jessamine trees; while the birds are singing among the rose branches like
the angels in the highest heavens, announcing the glad-tidings of the approach
of that spiritual spring, and the sweet music of their voices is causing the
real essence of all things to move and quiver.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (The Compilation
of Compilations vol. I, Conservation of the Earth's Resources)
