LITTLE STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENT. 



" His interest in the flower or the bird lay very deep in his mind, . 

 was connected with nature, and the meaning of nature was never 

 attempted to be defined by him. He would never offer a memoir of his 

 observations to the Natural History Society. ' Why should I ? To 

 detach the description from its connections in my mind would make it 



no longer true or valuable.' " 



EMERSON on Thoreau. 



