LITTLE STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENT. 



" His interest in the flower or the bird lay very deep in his mind, — 



was connected with nature, — and the meaning of nature was never 



attempted to be defined by him. He would never offer a memoir of hia 



observations to the Natural History Society. ' Why should I ? To 



detach the description from its connections in my mind would make it 



no longer true or valuable.'' " 



— Emekson on Thoreau. 



