but it is a feeling which depends
very largely on intelligence; it is
strengthened and made sensitive and
responsive by constant contact with
those objects which call it out. No
rules can be laid down for its de-
velopment save the very simple rule
to read only and always those books
which are literature. It is impossible
to give specific directions for the culti-
vation of the feeling for Nature. It
is not to be gotten out of text-books
of any kind; it is not to be found in
botanies or geologies or works on zo-
ology; it is to be gotten only out of
familiarity with Nature herself. Daily
fellowship with landscapes, trees, skies,
birds, with an open mind and in a re-
ceptive mood, soon develops in one a
kind of spiritual sense which takes cog-
nisance of things not seen before and
adds a new joy and resource to life.

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