"/ dislike to hear people say that they love flozvcrs. They should 

 love plants; then they have a deeper hold on nature. Intellectual interest 

 should go deeper than mere shape or color. Teachers or parents ask 

 the child to see how ' pretty ' the object is; but in most cases the child 

 wants to knozv hozv it lives and what it does." 



"In the early years zve are not to teach nature as science, we are not 

 to teach it primarily for method or for drill; zuc are to teach it for living 

 and for loving — and this is nature-study. On these points I make no 

 compromise." 



"If one is to be happy, he must be in sympathy with common things. 

 He must live in harmony zvith his environment. One cannot be happy 

 yonder nor to-morrow : he is happy here and nozv, or never. Our stock 

 of knowledge of common things should be great. Fezv of ns can travel. 

 We must knozv the things at home." 



"Nature-love tends tozvards naturalness, and tozvard simplicity of 

 living. It tends countryzvard. One zvord from the fields is zvorth tzvo 

 from the city. 'God made the country.' " 



L. H. BAILEY. 



SaS 



