#ochreous

Hence, it is impossible for you to take up the most insignificant pebble at your feet, without being able to read, if you like, this curious lesson in it. You look upon it at first as if it were earth only. Nay, it answers, 'I am not earth - I am earth and air in one; part of that blue heaven which you love, and long for, is already in me; it is all my life - without it I should be nothing, and able for nothing; I could not minister to you, nor nourish you - I should be a cruel and helpless thing; but, because there is, according to my need and place in creation, a kind of soul in me, I have become capable of good, and helpful in the circles of vitality.'