"My heart is fixed firm and stable in the belief that ultimately 

 the sunshine and the summer, the flowers and the azure sky, shall 

 become, as it were, interwoven into man's existence. He shall 

 take from all their beauty and enjoy their glory." Jeffries. 



"I prefer an oak tree to a temple; grass to a brick pavement; 

 wild flowers beneath a blue sky to exotic orchids under glass. I 

 would walk where I do not risk being jostled, and, if I see fit to 

 swing my arms, leap a ditch or climb a tree, I want no gaping 

 crowd, when I do so, to hedge me in. In short, I prefer living 

 4 next neighbor to Nature.' " 0. C. Abbott. 



41 1 wish so to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and in- 

 spirations from the commonest events, every day phenomena, so 

 that what my senses hourly perceive in my daily walk may inspire 

 me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about 

 me." Thoreau. 



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