Art Out-of-Doors 
sion of a bit of country soil is the develop- 
ment of the love of home, the suppression of 
that restless desire for change which makes 
of so many Americans “possible tramps” 
instead of established citizens. But a gen- 
uine love for Nature may serve a person 
pretty well in place of the actual ownership 
of land ; for in whatever corner of the 
country he may chance to live, he will see, 
understand, and appreciate every part and 
phase of its beauty, and thus, in a sense, 
feel himself the owner of the whole region ; 
and the oftener he visits it, the stronger and 
more intimate will become his attachment, 
his feeling of possession. Of course he will 
not be without a keen desire to see as much 
of the big world as possible, and to learn 
how many kinds of beauty it can show. 
But this desire will not be the imperious 
need for “a change ’ ’ which is felt by less 
fortunate souls ; and often it will be so much 
weaker than his wish to stay among the 
things which he knows best that year after 
year will pass and foreign lands, or even 
neighboring country-sides, will tempt in 
vain while he watches new clouds blow over 
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