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)
