Prelude of Quotations. xv 



happier, and less perplexed and anxio as lives, than most of MS 

 now living. BISHOP PHILLIPS BROOKS. 



Like a beautiful flower full of colour but without scent are the 

 fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly. 

 But like a beautiful flower full of colour and full of scent are 

 the fine and fruitful words of him who acts accordingly. THE 

 PATH OF VIRTUES. (Buddhist.) 



The love of nature is a great gift, and if it is frozen or 

 crushed out, the character can hardly fail to suffer from the 

 loss. I will not indeed say that a person who does not love 

 nature is necessarily bad, or that any one who does is necessarily 

 good; but it is to most minds a great help. Many, as Miss 

 Cobbe says, enter the Temple through the gate called Beautiful. 

 SIR JOHN LUB.TJOCK 



It cannot be too extensively known that nature is vast and 

 knowledge limited, and that no individual, however humble in 

 place or acquirements, need despair of adding to the general 

 fund. HUGH MILLER. 



I hope we agree in considering all Europeans who visit 

 remote countries, whatever their separate pursuits may be, as 

 detachments from the main body of civilized men sent out to 

 levy contributions of knowledge, as well as to gain victories 

 over barbarism. SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH (Address to the 

 Bombay Literary Society). 



Men that undertake only one district are much more likely to 

 advance natural knowledge than those who grasp at more than 

 they can possibly be acquainted with; every kingdom, every pro- 

 vince should have its own monographer. WHITE (of Selborne). 



Do you wonder why poets talk so much about flowers ? Did 

 you ever hear of a poet who did not talk about them ? . . . 

 They will bloom over and over again in poems, as in the 

 summer fields, to the end of time, always old and always new. 

 0. W. HOLMES. 



Through primrose tufts in that sweet bower^ 

 The periwinkle trailed its wreaths : 

 And 'tis my faith that every flower 

 Enjoys the air it breathes. 



