" Nature Study is the means of training persons to come 

 into thoughtful contact with Nature. It thus becomes an 

 art and not a science, excepting in its relations to the 

 Science of Pedagogy. It is the art of training in the 

 methods of studying those things which are the founda- 

 tions of the natural sciences. It differs from science in 

 many respects. It also differs from Object Lessons based 

 upon natural material. The success of Nature Study de- 

 pends upon the teacher and not upon the subject." 



—Prof. H. A. Surface. 



" For many years it has been one of my most constant 

 regrets that no schoolmaster of mine had a knowledge of 

 natural history, so far at least as to have taught me the 

 grasses that grow by the wayside, and the little winged 

 and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me 

 with salutations which I cannot answer, as things are. 

 Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, too, 

 and make me at home in the starry heavens which are al- 

 ways overhead, and which I do not half know to this day." 

 —-Thomas Carlyle. 



11 All things are beautiful, 

 Because of something lovelier than themselves, 

 Which breathes within them, and will never die." 



—Lucy Larcom. 



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