"The Nature-study process and point of view should he a part of the 

 work of all schools, because schools train persons to live. Particularly 

 should it be a part of rural schools, because the nature environment is the 

 controlling condition for all persons who live on the land. There is no 

 effective living in the open country unless the mind is sensitive to 

 the objects and phenomena of the open country; and no thoroughly good 

 farming is possible zvithout this same knowledge and outlook. Good 

 farmers are good naturalists." 



"The State and the Farmer" L. H. Bailey 



"Do not zvander in remote places or in foreign lands merely to find 

 '•nature; she is at your door. Touch the things near at hand- you will 

 then understand the things far away. The first consideration of special 

 study should be the inhabitants of your yard and garden: they are yours; 

 or if they are not yours, you are not living a right life. Do you zvish to 

 study botany F There are weeds in your door yard or trees on your lawn. 

 You say that they are not interesting: that is because you do not know 

 them. Every plant is as interesting as every other plant; if not, the fault 

 is not zvith the plant. It is no mere accident that many persons like plants 

 and animals but dislike botany and zoology. It is more important to study 

 plants than special subjects as exemplified in plants. Why does the weed 

 grow jUst there f Anszver that, and you. have put yourself in pertinent 

 relation with the world out-of-doors." 



"Outlook to Nature." L. H. Bailey 



The photographs of fungi in this leafiet were taken by Professor 

 George F. Atkinson for his hook "Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc." 

 and are used here with his permission. 



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