4 Outlook to Nature 



I make mine : what is now much needed in the 

 public temper is such a change of attitude as 

 will make us to see and appreciate the com- 

 monplace and the spontaneous, and to have 

 the desire to maintain and express our youth- 

 ful enthusiasms. And it is my special part to 

 try, so far as possible, to open the eyes and 

 the heart to nature and the common-day con- 

 dition. My point of view is, of course, that of 

 the countryman, and no doubt it has the coun- 

 tryman's bias. 



So great has been the extension of knowledge, 

 and so many the physical appliances that mul- 

 tiply our capabilities, that we are verily bur- 

 dened with riches. We are so eager to enter 

 all the strange and ambitious avenues that we 

 overlook the soil at our feet. 



We live in an age of superlatives, I had 

 almost said of super-superlatives, so much so 

 that even the superlatives now begin to pall. 

 The reach for something new has become so 

 much a part of our lives that we cease to recog- 

 nize the fact, and accept novelty as a matter of 

 course. If we shall fail to satisfy ourselves 



