IN TUNE WITH NATURE 167 



experience I now venture to describe. After 

 arrival in camp I went off into the mountains alone. 

 It was a heavenly evening. The sun was flooding 

 the mountain slopes with slanting light. Calm and 

 deep peace lay over the valley below me the valley 

 in which Lhasa lay. I seemed in tune with all the 

 world and all the world seemed in tune with me. 

 My experiences in many lands in dear distant 

 England ; in India and China ; in the forests of 

 Manchuria, Kashmir, and Sikkim ; in the desert of 

 Gobi and the South African veldt ; in the Hima- 

 laya mountains ; and on many an ocean voyage ; and 

 experiences with such varied peoples as the Chinese 

 and Boers, Tibetans and Mahrattas, Rajputs and 

 Kirghiz seemed all summed up in that moment. 

 And yet here on the quiet mountain-side, filled as 

 I was with the memories of many experiences that 

 I had had in the high mountain solitudes and in the 

 deserts of the world away from men, I seemed in 

 touch with the wide Universe beyond this Earth 

 as well. 



A fter the high tension of the last fifteen months, 

 I was free to let my soul relax. So I let it open 

 itself out without restraint. And in its sensitive 

 state it was receptive of the finest impressions and 

 quickly responsive to every call. I seemed to be 

 truly in harmony with the Heart of Nature. My 

 vision seemed absolutely clear. I felt I was seeing 

 deep into the true heart of things. With my soul's 

 eye I seemed to see what was really in men's hearts, 

 in the heart of mankind as a whole and in the Heart 

 of Nature as a whole. 



And my experience was this and I try to 



