Art Out-of-Doors 



maturity, delights him even more than a 

 finer tree about which no memories or 

 hopes are ckistered, for even if he has not 

 planted and watered it himself, even if it 

 grows in the neighboring forest instead of 

 his owm field, he loves it with a personal, 

 proprietary affection. When he drives 

 through a beautiful new country his eyes are 

 perpetually charmed ; but when he drives 

 throusfh the roads around his home his heart 

 is touched and his imagination is stirred 

 by the beauty of past yeai's as well as by 

 the beauty of to-day, and by the hope that 

 next year's beauty also may belong to him. 

 Each tree is a friend, each bush has a 

 special message for his special ear, each 

 flower is greeted as the child of other flowers 

 which he knew last summer in the same 

 corner of the roadside. He not only ad- 

 mires what he sees — he is interested by 

 everything he sees in a sense that is im- 

 possible where things are beheld for the first 

 time. And true love, if it means admira- 

 tion, means interest also, whether inani- 

 mate things or human beings are in ques- 

 tion. 



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