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by the wild creatures in the fields and woods are more or less 

 veiled and withdrawn; and the actors all stop when a specta- 

 tor appears upon the scene. One must be able to interpret the 

 signs, to penetrate the scenes, to put this and that together." 



Riverhy (Eye-Beams) . 



''The literary treatment of scientific matter is naturall}' 

 of much more interest to the general reader than to the man of 

 science. By literary treatment I do not mean taking liberties 

 with facts, but treating them so as to give the reader a lively 

 and imaginative realization of them — a sense of their aesthetic 

 and intellectual values. The creative mind can quicken a 

 dead fact and make it mean something in the emotional 

 sphere.'' 



Under the Apple Trees (Literature and Science). 



''The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the 

 beauty and the wonder of the world. . . . My life has always 

 been more or less detached from the life about me. I have 

 not been a hermit, but my temperament and love of solitude, 

 and a certain constitutional shrinking from all kinds of strife 

 have kept me in the bypaths rather than on the great high- 

 ways of life. My talent, such as it is, is distinctly a by-path 

 talent, or at most, a talent for green lanes and sequestered 

 roadsides. ... I have loved the feel of the grass under my 

 feet, and the sound of the running streams by my side. The 

 hum of the wind in the treetops has always been good music 

 to me, and the face of the fields has often comforted me more 

 than the faces of men. 



" I am in love with the world, by my constitution. I have 

 nestled lovingly in it. It has been home. It has been my 

 point of outlook into the universe. I have not bruised myself 

 against it, nor tried to use it ignobly. I have tilled its soil, I 



