The Love of Nature 
Nature as those men did and all true artists 
do, or if he ever learns the beneficent 
lesson, the quietest scenes will impress him, 
the most familiar will be ever new. The 
shadow of a blackberry-vine as it trails over 
a gray rock, will give him as delightful an 
emotion as the sight of a great mountain ; 
and custom will not stale his pleasure, for it 
will be as infinitely varied, as perpetually 
renewed, as the leaves on the trees, the 
blades of grass in the fields, the tints in the 
sunset skies. 
People who run about, summer after sum- 
mer, in search of new landscapes to admire, 
will often tell you that it is because they 
love Nature. But if they did they would 
be much less apt to run about ; they could 
exercise their passion within narrower limits, 
and they would be likely to content them- 
selves within such limits because a particu- 
lar love for particular beauties would result 
from long acquaintance with them. 
In Mrs. Robbins’s “ Rescue of an old Old 
Place,” she rightly says that one of the 
great benefits which spring from the posses- 
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