INTRODUCTION 7 



wrapped in books and thoughts, mixes up the seasons, and 

 makes a lark into a house-sparrow, he had the country spirit 

 'as strong as any man in Illyria.' Every Englishman is 

 pulled to love of the earth in this green island where change 

 is continuous, and all the changes bound each to each in a 

 circle of natural cohesion and perennial novelty. Autumn 

 is not sad. Winter is not sad. If we seek the mood of 

 each, it is the same as the mood of spring, for the year is a 

 circle, the circle of our life, to which each season is integral. 



