" Nature Study is studying nature, in its own environ- 

 ment by the natural method, through the self-activity of 

 the child. 



" Wlien Nature Study is directed, as by our teachers, the 

 child is impressed with the fact that in order to make the 

 knowledge brought to him through the senses serve him in 

 the best possible way he must train himself to so judge 

 this knowledge, to so compare it and to so arrange it in 

 his mind as to be ready to use it in different forms of 

 thought expression, drawing, modelling, speaking, writing, 

 or to turn it to practical account in the affairs of his life." 

 — Mattie Rose Crawford, author of "Guide to Nature 

 Study." 



" If nature is to be a resource in a man's life, one's re- 

 lation to her must not be too exact and formal, but more 

 that of a lover and friend."— John Burroughs. 



"It is one of the laws of our being that by seeking 

 interests rather than by seeking pleasures we can best 

 encounter the gloom of life."— Lecky. 

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