“The Universe is thus a kind of scaffolding up through which man climbs to the kingdom of Heaven; it is also a kind of Sacrament – a material thing used as a channel of spiritual sanctification. Trees have no other speech than the whispering of their leaves. Their mute gaspings need a mind and a voice to lift them out of their materiality and give them utterance before the throne of God.” Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen