38 Outlook to Nature 



interesting and that all other features are not. 

 It is no mere accident that many persons like 

 plants and animals but dislike botany and 

 zoology. It is more important to study plants 

 than special subjects as exemplified in plants. 

 Why does the weed grow just there ? Answer 

 this, and you have put yourself in pertinent 

 relation with the world out-of-doors. 



If one is a farmer, he has the basis for his 

 natural history in his own possessions, ani- 

 mals domestic and wild, plants domestic and 

 wild, free soil, pastures and lowlands and wood- 

 lands, crops growing and ripening, the daily 

 expression of the moving pageant of nature. 

 Zoological garden and botanical garden are here 

 at his hand and lying under his title-deed, to 

 have and to hold as he will. No other man 

 has such opportunity. 



I would also call the attention of the towns- 

 man to his opportunity. If the range of nature 

 is not his, he still has the wind and rain, the 

 street trees, the grass of lawns, the weed in its 

 crevice, the town-loving birds, the insects, and 

 I hope that he has his garden. Even the city 



