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But if one got no farther than his how-to-know 

 book would lead him, he still would get into the 

 fields, — the best place for him this side of heaven, 

 — he would get ozone for his lungs, red blood, sound 

 sleep, and health. As a nation, we had just begun to 

 get away from the farm and out of touch with the 

 soil. The nature movement is sending us back in 

 time. A new wave of physical soundness is to roll 

 in upon us as the result, accompanied with a newness 

 of mind and of morals. 



For, next to bodily health, the influence of the 

 fields makes for the health of the spirit. It is easier 

 to be good in a good body and an environment of 

 largeness, beauty, and peace, — easier here than any- 

 where else to be sane, sincere, and " in little thyng 

 have suffisaunce." If it means anything to think 

 upon whatsoever things are good and lovely, then it 

 means much to own a how-to-know book and to 

 make use of it. 



This is hardly more than a beginning, however, 

 merely satisfying an instinct of the mind. It is good 

 if done afield, even though such classifying of the 

 out-of-doors is only scraping an acquaintance with 

 nature. The best good, the deep healing, come when 



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