Just as creation is the revelation of God--His avowal, as a
poet has said--so in the same way the external life of man,
when it follows its normal development, is the translation, in
signs and symbols, of what he bears at the bottom of his being.
It would be easier to keep the sap from mounting, the flowers
from opening, the leaves from tearing apart their coverings,
than human nature from manifesting itself. It is this need
that gives man his distinction as a social and communicative
being.--Charles Wagner, “The Gospel of Life.”
(1962)