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•Revised edition: This edition of Parables from Nature has updated some of words from the text such as hath, whither, cock, gay, and additional words and replaced these often confusing words with modern equivalents, such as has, where, rooster, happy, etc. to facilitate ease of reading and understandability. Because word definitions change with time, changing outdated words in the text adds value to the book by keeping the meaning of the words intact, while changing the actual words.•All four parts of this series are included in this Kindle book.What can we learn about God and life from nature? In this classic book, Margaret Gatty uses lessons from nature to teach timeless principles about things such as faith, leadership, and eternity. Each chapter contains its own independent story. In one story, when a caterpillar is asked to take care of the eggs of a dying butterfly, the caterpillar feels unfit for the task because of the magnificence of the grand butterfly. A lark tells the caterpillar that she must have faith. When the eggs of the butterfly hatch, and the shocked caterpillar realizes that the butterfly’s eggs are caterpillars like she is, she learns the lesson of faith—that she must believe something will happen even though she hasn’t seen it yet. When the time of metamorphosis comes for the caterpillar, and none of her relatives believe that she will become a butterfly, she says with confidence and joy—“I shall be a Butterfly some day!” THE TABLE OF CONTENTS IS NOW FULLY FUNCTIONAL AND CLICKABLE.

"There are two books," says Sir Thomas Browne, in his Religio Medici, "from whence I collect my divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant, Nature-that universal and public manuscript that lies expanded unto the eyes of all: those that never saw Him in the one have discovered Him in the other."Each timeless story uses nature to reveal God in a beautiful way.This edition of Parables From Nature collects the first four series of Margaret Gatty's collection and re-orders them to fit in with the Ambleside Online homeschool curriculum.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... the opposite corner, I see the sentinel guard, who will never stir from his post, until the assembly has dispersed, unless he hears or sees symptoms of danger or interruption, and then he will dash out and fly among them, making his warning cry, so different from all others, that any one who has once heard it will recognize it again. We must whisper our remarks very softly then, or it may give notice of our presence here, and all the flock may forsake the field. How solemn and grave, yet how keen and attentive he looks! How patient and observant! Contented not to join the fun himself, so that he may but promote it. Unselfish, dark watchman, are you paid for your trouble, and if so, how? Or do you do it out of love and affection for your brethren, expecting love and affection from them in return, on some future occasion, when one of them will watch, and you be allowed to play? Play, I still say; but can this be only play indeed? Surely something graver and more important than play must have brought these different companies and families from their often distant homes, to this spot? Alas! how vain are my questionings! nature remains mute around me, and man is ignorant and unable to answer. Yes! ignorant and unable to answer, let him say what he will. Hear this, oh you philosophers,--you lights of the world, with your books and papers and diagrams, and collected facts, and self-confidence unlimited! You who turn the bull's eye of your miserable lanthorns upon isolated corners of the universe, and fancy you are sitting in the supreme light of creative knowledge! Hear this; you are ignorant and unable to answer; or disprove it if you can, by showing me that you do know this one simple thing which puzzles me now! Tell me what the rooks are...

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Margaret Gatty 3 June 1809 – 4 October 1873) was an English children's author and writer on marine biology.Gatty was born in Burnham on Crouch, Essex, the daughter of the Rev. Alexander John Scott, D.D., a Royal Navy chaplain, who served under and was the trusted friend of Lord Nelson on board the HMS Victory before and during the Battle of Trafalgar. She married the Rev. Alfred Gatty, D.D., Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, in 1839 and moved into the vicarage of Church of St. Mary shortly after. She became a highly useful and popular writer of tales for young people. While her tales were targeted at young people, she hoped that they would influence the minds of adults as well. Among her other books are Parables from Nature, Worlds not Realized, Proverbs Illustrated, and Aunt Judy's Tales. She also conducted Aunt Judy's Magazine, a family publication written by various members of Margaret's large family.Gatty became fascinated with marine biology, through her contact with her second cousin Charles Henry Gatty FRS FRSE FLS FGS etc.[4] There was also possibly some influence from William Henry Harvey, whom she had met while convalescing in Hastings in 1848. Following this, she wrote a book on British seaweeds which was more accessible than previous publications on the subject. She corresponded with many of the greatest marine biologists of her day including George Busk and Robert Brown. Gatty amassed a large collection of marine material, much of it gathered by her correspondents in far-flung corners of the British Empire. This was donated to Weston Park Museum by her daughter, Horatia Katherine Francis Gatty.

Excerpt from Parables From NatureThe Sedge Warbler is open to the naturalist's objection, that female birds do not sing. But it suited the moralist that they should do so in this particular case; and who would not err in such company as Spenser, Milton, Thomson, Beattie, and the immortal Isaak Walton?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.