66 HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 



It rises from every tangle and chasm. ... I am 

 not a spectator of, but a participator in it." 



Would you have the child joyous? Says the 

 Rev. Dallas Lore Sharp : 



" The joy in wild things is the joy of being wild 

 with them — vacation joy." 



And so we can go to nature for all excellencies, 

 and she is constantly trying to win us. Or, as 

 Walter Savage Landor has expressed it : 



" We are what suns and winds and waters make us ; 

 The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills 

 Fashion and win their nurslings with their smiles." 



Correlate the child's moral training with the 

 truth, beauty, and loveliness of nature. With 

 nature study may be correlated the minor matters 

 which you are so accustomed to associate with it. 

 With your nature study must be correlated these 

 higher matters if you would rightly teach. What 

 a suggestion has Walt Whitman given us for cor- 

 relation : 



" There was a child went forth every day, 



And the first object he looked upon, that object he be- 

 came ; 



And that object became part of him for the day, or a cer- 

 tain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching 

 cycles of years. 



