An air-plant will grow by feeding on the winds.

Nay, those huge forests that overspread great continents have built themselves up mainly from the air-currents with which they are always battling.

The oak is but a foliated atmospheric crystal deposited from the aerial ocean that holds the future vegetable world in solution.

The storm that tears its leaves has paid tribute to its strength, and it breasts the tornado clad in the spoils of a hundred hurricanes.
Poor little Iris! What had she in common with the great oak in the shadow of which we are losing sight of her ?--She lived and grew like that,--this was all.

The blue milk ran into her veins and filled them with thin, pure blood.