About touching plants and flowers, you must confine yourself to those you are certain you know, until I can teach you.

There are gorgeous and wonderfully attractive things here, but some of them are rank poison.
You won't handle plants you don't know, until you learn, Ruth ?" "I will not," she promised instantly.
She went to the seat under the porch tree and leaning against the trunk she studied the hill, and the rippling course of Singing Water where it turned and curved before the cabin, and started across the vivid little marsh toward the lake.

Then she looked at the Harvester.

He seated himself on the low railing and smiled at her.
"You are very tired ?" he asked.
"No," she said.

"You are right about the air being better up here.