288 ] The Wonderful Ways of Insects and Spiders 



to see, so much to be inquired into and understood. Exploring 

 nature, I have said earlier, is a natural and rewarding outlet for 

 our children's energy and our own. It opens windows on the world, 

 through which the tensions produced in all of us by modern liv- 

 ing may escape. That is what George Orwell, the noted British 

 novelist and critic, meant when he declared: "I think that by 

 retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, 

 butterflies and . . . toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future 

 a little more probable." 



