She Nature-Student 
the companionship of his bluebirds, chipmunks, and 
pine trees, 
This is best. And the question most frequently 
asked me is, How can I come by a real love for my 
pine trees, chipmunks, and bluebirds? How can I 
know real companionship with nature? 
How did the boy along the starlit lake come by 
it, —a companionship so real and intimate that the 
very cliffs knew him, that the owls answered him, 
that even the silences spoke to him, and the imagery 
of his rocks and skies became a part of the inner 
world in which he dwelt? Simply by living along 
Winander and hallooing so often to the owls that 
they learned to halloo in reply. You may need to 
be born again before you can talk the language of 
the owls; but if there is in you any hankering for 
the soil, then all you need for companionship with 
nature is a Winander of your own, a range, a haunt, 
that you can visit, walk around, and get home from 
in a day’s time. If this region can be the pastures, 
woodlots, and meadows that make your own door- 
yard, then that is good; especially if you buy the 
land and live on it, for then Nature knows that you 
are not making believe. She will accept you as she 
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