The Creating of Game Refuges 



for their protection, if not a clamorous demand, is 

 one almost universally felt. All men, except a 

 meager few of the dwarfed and strictly city-bred, 

 partake of this, and it is so much a sign of the 

 times that no Sunday edition is complete without 

 its column devoted to wild creatures, their traits, 

 their habits, or their eccentricities. One could 

 hardly name, outside of money-making and poli- 

 tics, an interest which all men more generally 

 share. 



Every lad is a bom naturalist, and the true wis- 

 dom, as all sensible people know, is to carry 

 unfatigued through life the boy's power of enjoy- 

 ment, his freshness of perception, his alertness and 

 zest. Where the child's capacity for close obser- 

 vation survives into manhood, supplemented by 

 man's power of sustained attention, we have the 

 typical temperament of the lover of the woods, 

 the mountains, and the wild — of the naturalist in 

 the sense that Thoreau was a naturalist, and many 

 another whose memory is cherished. 



It is not impossible for a man to be deeply 

 learned and still to lack the power of awakening 

 enthusiasm in others; as a matter of fact, to be so 

 heavily freighted with Information that he forgets 

 to nourish his own finer faculties, his Intuition, his 

 sympathy, and his insight. One must have lived 



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