ON LANDSCAPE AND LIFE 



gives the former its proper environment, 

 and the latter its material expression. 



In large part the effect of landscape on 

 humzm lives is unnoticed and unknown 

 even to the personality affected. The 

 greatest and deepest and most ineffaceable 

 results are probably of this sort. Yet it is 

 no rare thing to find an attachment to 

 landscape, both conscious and powerful, 

 thus acknowledging its influence. My 

 friend Mr. Kinney has a fruit-storage house 

 on the top of which he has built a cupola 

 for the special purpose of viewing the 

 country round. It is hardly possible for a 

 visitor to leave the farm without first fol- 

 lowing Mr. Kinney up the steep and narrow 

 stairs to have a look at the lake and the 

 mountains. There is nothing about the 

 homestead, not even the magnificent apple 

 orchard, that the owner is prouder of or 

 enjoys more. 



The doctors have discovered a new 

 name for an old disease — the name is 

 nostalgia, which, translated into English, 

 means, "We want to see our home again." 

 There were dark and terrible days of 

 homesickness for the men and women who 

 went from New England to settle the great 



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