Chapter 107 Spring - 3

Apart from observing the shape of the deep ditch and steep slope where the thawed sand flows down the railway line, there is nothing that pleases me more. When I go to the village, I always pass there. This kind of shape is not often seen. On such a large scale, though, Many newly exposed railroad embankments have provided this suitable material since railroads were built everywhere.The material is fine sand of various thicknesses and colors, and often contains some soil.When the frost reappears in the spring, and even in the winter when the snow is still melting, the sand begins to flow down the steep slopes, like lava from a volcano, and sometimes breaks through the snow and flows out, flooding the land. Where no sand has been seen before.Innumerable such small streams, overlapping and intersecting each other, show a mixed product, half obeying the law of flowing water and half obeying the law of plants.For as it flows down, it is in a state rather like the sprouting of leaves, or the growth of vines, making many pulpy jets, sometimes a foot or more deep, which, when you look at them, look like some mossy spouts. Stricular, lobed, overlapping fronds; or, you think of corals, or leopard paws, or bird claws, or human brains, or viscera, or any secretions.It is a strange breeding indeed, whose forms and colors, or we have seen imitations from bronzes, this architectural ornamentation of foliage and flower clusters is more than ancient acanthus leaves, chicory, ivy, or other Plant leaves are older and more typical; perhaps, under certain circumstances, this will baffle future geologists.The whole deep trench gave me a deep impression, as if this is a cave opened and the stalactites are exposed to the sun.The various colors of the sand, which are simply rich and pleasing to the eye, contain the various colors of iron, brown, gray, yellow, red.When the liquid reaches the drainage ditch at the foot of the embankment, it spreads out flat and becomes a shoal. The various streams have lost their semi-cylindrical shape and become flatter and wider. If they are wetter, they will be more mixed. together, until they form an almost perfectly flat sand, still of kaleidoscopic, beautiful shades, in which you can still see the original plant forms; until later, in water, it becomes a sandy shore, like As seen on some estuaries, it loses the form of plants at this time, and turns into sparkling ripples at the bottom of the ditch.

The whole railroad bed, about twenty to forty feet high, is sometimes covered with this ornamentation of foliage, or fissures of fine sand, on one or both sides, as long as a quarter of the length. Miles, this is the product of a spring day.The amazing thing about these sandy branches and leaves is that they are formed suddenly.When I was on one side of the embankment, because the sun shines on one side first, I saw a lifeless slope, and on the other side, I saw such gorgeous foliage, it was only an hour of creation, I Deeply moved, as if, in a special sense, I were standing in the studio of the great artist who had created the world and himself--run to the spot where he was continuing to work, on this embankment Frolicking around, he painted his novel designs here and there with too much energy.I feel as if I am getting closer to the guts of the earth, because the quicksand is in the shape of a lobe, like an animal's heart and lungs.In this sand, you see the shape of a leaf will emerge.No wonder the outer form of the earth is a leaf shape, because inside it, it is also working under this idea.The atoms have learned this law and are conceived in it.The leaf hanging high on the branch sees its original form here.Both on the earth and in the interior of animal bodies, there are moist, thick lobes, and the word is especially applied to the liver, lungs, and fatty lobes (its etymology, labor, lapsus, is to drift, flow down, or pass away. Meaning; globus means 1obe (leaf), globe (earth); it can also be transformed into lap (cover), flap (flat and wide overhang) and many other words], and in appearance, a Dry thin leaf (leaf), that f sound, or V sound, is a compressed dry b sound. The consonant of the word lobe is lb, soft b sound (single leaf, B It is double-bladed) with the flow sound l as a foil, which promotes it. In the glb of the word globe, the guttural sound of g uses the capacity of the throat to increase the literal meaning. The feathers of birds are still leaf-shaped, but Drier, thinner. In this way, you can also see from the lumbering grubs of the land to the lively, fluttering butterflies. Our earth is constantly changing, constantly surpassing itself, and it also flaps its wings in its orbit. Even the ice begins as a delicate crystalline leaf, as if it flowed into a reproduction of a model, and that model was the leaf of the waterweed imprinted on the mirror surface of the lake. A whole tree is but a leaf and the rivers are the greater leaves whose mass is the earth in the middle of the rivers, and the towns and cities the eggs in their leaf axils.