^(^2 Rural School Leaflet 



earth yet are unlike all others, and they too will have their day and will 

 die away and in some mysterious process will come again. Insects crawl 

 here and there, coming from strange crevices and all of them intent. 

 Earthworms heave their burrows. All these, too, pass on and die and 

 will come again. A bird darts in and captures a flying insect; a dog 

 trots across the farther end of the plot ; a cat is hidden under the vines by 

 the wall. A toad dozes under a bench; he will come out to-night. 



It is all a drama, intense, complex, ever moving, always dying, always 

 re-bom. I see a thousand actors moving in and out, always going, always 

 coming. I am part of the drama; I break the earth; I destroy this plant 

 and that, as if I were the arbiter of life and death. I sow the seed, I see 

 the tender things come up and I feel as if I had created something new and 

 fine, that had not been seen on the earth before; and I have a new joy as 

 deep and as intangible as the joy of religion.* 



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"Sljf naturr-bPBire mag ht prrpftual anil rnnatant, but \\\t garhftt-bfatrf rrturttB 

 tmtlf pufry itpm springtimp." — L. H. B. 



" ulljp satiBfarlton of a gar&Ptt hasa not brprnb upon tl|p arpa, nor. IjappUy. upon 1I|p 

 ro0t or rarity of tl|p planta. 3(t JirprnbH upon tlft trmprr of tijp prraon. ®ne muat first 

 sprk to loue plants anil naturr, anl» tljpn rnlttuatP tl)at ijappy prar? of mtnJ» uii|irl; ta 

 aattafipli mitlj Itttlp. li^p uriU ht Ijappy if Ifp Ijaa no rigii and arbitrarg i&rala, for garbrna 

 arp roqupltialf, particularly witlj tl|p nnnirp. 3f plants grom anb tl|riop. I|p al|ouUJ bp 

 Ijappy ; anb if tlfp planla ml)irlf tljriup rtjanrp not to bp tljp onpa mljirlj l|p plantpji. tl|pg arp 

 plants nPBprtlfplpaa. and naturp ia aatiafirii mitlj tljpm. Mp arp apt to roupt tl|p lljinga uihirl] 

 nip rannnt Ijaup; but wp arp Ijappipr wljpn nip Ioup tljp tl)inga uiljirl| grom brrauap tljpg 

 must A patrlf of luaty pigmpria, groming anil rrombing in luxurioua abandon, mag 

 bp a bpttpr anii morp mortify nbtrrt of affrrtinn tl|an a brii of rolpuars in mliirlf pnpry 

 spark of lifp anil spirit anil iniliniiiuality Ijaa bppn aljparpii out anil aupprpasrii." — L. H. B. 



"QJIfp man mlfo morripa morning anb nigljt about tljp baniipliona in tl|p lamn mill finii 

 grrat rplipf in louing tl|p iian&pliona. iEarl| bloasom ts morllj morp tljan a golii roin, aa 

 it aliimmpra in tljP pxubprant annliglft of tljp groming apring. anil attrarta tlfp brpa to its 

 boBom. Siittlp rlfiliirpn Ioup tlfp iianiiplinna : mify mag not mp ? Sinup tlfp tlfinga uparrat at 

 Ifanb ; anil Ioup intpuaply. 2lf 31 mprp to mritp a motto nupr tlfp gatP of a gariipn, 31 alfouUi 

 rlfooap tlfp rpmark mlfirlf S»orratpa maiip aa Ifp earn tlfp luxurira in tlfp markpt, ' ll^om murl; 

 tljprp ta in tlfp morlii tlfat 31 iio not mant." — L. H. B. 



*NoTE. — We gratefully acknowledge the permission to use "The Spirit of the 

 Garden " from " The Outlook to Nature," pubhshed and copyrighted in 1905 by The 

 Macmillan Company. 



