" Nature Study should lead to a sympathetic acquaint- 

 ance with living plants and animals in their natural 

 environment." — A. C. Boyden. 



"This introductory relationship with Nature is a resource 

 of inexhaustible delight and enrichment ; to establish it 

 ought to be as much a part of every education as the 

 teaching of the rudiments of formal knowledge ; and it 

 ought to be as great a reproach to a man not to be able to 

 read the open pages of the world about him as not to be 

 able to read the open page of the book before him. It is a 

 matter of instinct with a few ; it may be a matter of edu- 

 cation with all. Even those who are born with the eyes 

 and ears of naturalists must reinforce their native aptitude 

 by training." — Hamilton Wright Mabie. 



" Is there anything more delightful than the fatigue of 

 a summer afternoon's long ramble after objects one loves ? 

 You are not tired of them, but ivith them. It is a delicious 

 fatigue. Subsequent years of trouble cannot obliterate the 

 charmed impressions. They are the sunniest spots in one's 

 memory. Their recollections come, like angels' visits, to 

 unconsciously relieve us in after-years of many a sad 

 trouble and trial. They should be laid up in store when 

 you are young, so that they can be drawn upon when you 

 are old. Then the sunshine of youth is stored to gild the 

 troubled days of matured manhood and the darker shadows 

 of old age."— Dr. J. E. Taylor, in " The Playtime Natu- 

 ralist." 



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