She Mature Movement 
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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