They Who Sow

Christ's teachings were very perfect—that they who sow by the wayside will reap thistles and tares—but well-doing and an earnest desire for right will bring its own reward.

T. B. Clarke (Preface to the Social Life of Heavenly Spheres by Mary Washington, San Francisco, California, 1879

Dead trees in the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, US. These trees grew during inactivity of the mineral-rich springs and were killed when calcium carbonate carried by spring water clogged the vascular systems of the trees. The same process also effectively preserves the trees by preventing decay—Thegreenj—Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported