

Let us be friendly and Nature is friendly; interested 

 and she is interesting. A love of beauty discloses beauty 

 everywhere. Therefore be yourself what you would have 

 Nature be to you. Attention is a master key. If you are 

 attentive to birds with all your mind and heart you will 

 see birds and see them in a more familiar light than 

 others do. How hardly shall they who are distracted by 

 the cares of the world enter into the kingdom of Nature. 



It is true, however, that Nature yields us exactly 

 what we are fitted to receive, and only to a mind com- 

 panionable in the most exquisite sense does she yield her- 

 self fully. In other words, we find ourselves in Nature. 

 A mind thus keyed is perhaps fitted for a very fine com- 

 panionship alone, and much that engages others may 

 seem neither sufficiently deep nor sincere to satisfy its 

 ideal. — Stanton Davis Kirkham in "Outdoor Philosophy." 



