Excerpt from In God's Garden: Meditations on Self-Development Our bodies are plots of ground in the garden of God, portions of Mother Earth allotted us for cultivation. Are we doing the most with our bodies? Are we developing them outside and inside? The body should be held well, moved rhythmically and made as beautiful as possible. Every care should be taken of this precious plot of ground in order that our tree of life may blossom and bear fruit. As flowers without roots wither fast, so beauty only of the flesh soon goes. A top dressing for the soil is all very well for small flowers, but for hardy plants, for trees or flowering perennials, we must needs dig deep, turn up all the old roots; get rid of that which cumbers the soil. Throw out the stones, break up the clods and let air and light come in to regenerate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.