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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: Indeed, not content with what revelation Nature makes of herself of
her own accord, man has multiplied her manifestations. Spots
suitable to their growth have been peopled by him with trees.
Sometimes they stand in groups like star-clusters, as in Oji,
crowning a hill; sometimes, as at Mukojima, they line an avenue for
miles, dividing the blue river on the one hand from the blue-green
rice-fields on the other,--a floral milky way of light. But
wherever the trees may be, there at their flowering season are to be
found throngs of admirers. For in crowds people go out to see the
sight, multitudes streaming incessantly to and fro beneath their
blossoms as the time of day determines the turn of the human tide.
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