Art Out-of-Doors 
even afar off as you get the merest glimpse 
of them, all the easily visible plants near 
your home ; and then the fruit of the les- 
son has become a part of your life, a part of 
yourself, a new sense, a new apartment 
opened in your brain. It means not only 
special knowledge of special plants, but 
much keener vision, more delicate powers 
of appreciation, a more subtile and yet a 
broader and richer faculty of enjoyment. 
And thus it is a thing that you will carry 
with you forever after, wherever you may 
go. Now for the first time you really love 
the beauty of Nature, because now for the 
first time you really see and understand the 
beauty of some of its component parts. 
My own knowledge of botany is a smat- 
tering indeed, and part of it I forget from 
one summer to another. But the fruit of it 
I would not exchange for any acquirement 
which has cost me a hundred-fold the amount 
of time and trouble. This cost me only 
such odd hours as I could spare each day 
during a single busy summer. It does not 
enable me to know a quarter of all the plants 
I see when I leave my own little corner of 
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