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ILL human beings draw pleasure 
j from Nature in an instinctive 
i way. They enjoy fresh air, 
' sunshine, and open outlooks ; 
they prefer a blue sky to a gray one, and 
will confess that a green landscape is pleas- 
anter to the eye than grimy pavements, even 
though for other reasons they may prefer to 
live in town. 
Such likings as these prove no love of 
Nature ; they are almost purely physical ; 
sentiment has little more to do with them 
than with the pleasure of an animal 
basking in the sun. But the majority of 
people, even among the uncultivated classes, 
have a deeper feeling for Nature than this, 
and appreciate something of its beauty. 
Stupid and brutalized indeed is the man or 
woman who does not notice a brilliant bed 
of flowers, or would not be impressed by the 
sight of a great mountain-chain. On Sundays 
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