After long experience I am convinced that the best place 
to study nature is at one’s own home—on the farm, in the 
mountains, on the plains, by the sea—no matter where that 
may be. The seasons bring to his door the great revolving cy¬ 
cle of wild life, floral and faunal, and he need miss no part of 
the show. 
John Burroughs 
