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describable beauty ; which robbed the owner of 

 nothing, and gave the visitor who had eyes to see 

 and a soul to enjoy immeasurable pleasure. Why, 

 when the unworthy owner wished to cut the tim 

 ber and cord wood from around this glen, should 

 he not have left the spice-bushes ? They were 

 worth nothing to him ; but a few ignorant chop 

 pers no more ignorant than he leveled them, 

 and the lover of beauty cursed him and pitied him 

 at once. It is man, in his partial development, 

 his half-civilization, that knows not how to enjoy 

 his earth, and so destroys it. 



The Nature-school of the age that began with 

 Wordsworth and continued through Bryant and 

 Thoreau and is so well known in Burroughs and 

 many another &quot; all can raise the flower now, for 

 all have got the seed,&quot; that it is which has opened 

 the wonder of the manifestation of life in tree and 

 flower and the glory of the scenic beauty of earth 

 to all, without giving them the radical secret of 

 respect. 



There is no time of the year more marvelous 

 than this border region of the seasons. It cannot 

 but awaken a fresh sense of the miraculous life of 

 earth, even though it be very imperfectly appre 

 hended. When Wordsworth wrote his well- 

 known lines in &quot; Peter Bell &quot; : 



