SIXTEEN] NOOKS AND CORNERS 
I have spoken plainly, but none too strongly, 
about the average house. It is the ugliest thing in 
a country landscape. It has rarely a line of beauty 
or of peace, or a suggestion of rest, inside or out- 
side of it. It is just a barn for human folk. It is 
not quite as healthy as the animal barn, and not 
generally as pretty. Your house should be a part 
of the property — that is, of all the acres that you 
occupy. Your residence should be the whole of 
your property. This sort of home we shall have by 
and by. What I mean to say is that we must learn 
to get out of doors, and stay out most of the time — 
to work outside, play outside, eat outside, sleep out- 
side. Form your sympathies with nature; talk gar- 
den, think flower and fruit; study bugs and butter- 
flies; then lie down on the sweet sod, under your 
blossoming apple trees, and let your soul sing: “ Our 
Father, Who art in the Heavens! and in the apple 
blossoms! and in the roses, too! Thy name be 
hallowed!” 
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