Show Knowledge Without Love of Nature Does Not Stick Says an Authority on the Subject Once started In pursuit of nature lore we are ore pretty sure to keep on says John Burroughs In the Century Magazine When people ask me How shall we teach tench our children to love nature I 1 reply Do not try to I teach them at nil all Just turn them i loose In the country and trust to luck It Is time enough to answer childrens children's questions when they are Interested enough to ask them Knowledge without without without with with- out love loe does toes not stick but If love Jove comes first knowledge Is pretty prett sure to follow I do not know how I first got my own love for tor nature but I suppose suppose sup sup- pose It was because I was born bom and passed my youth on the farm and reacted reacted re re- reacted acted spontaneously to the natural objects objects objects ob ob- ob- ob I about me I felt a certain prIvacy privacy vacy racy and kinship with the woods and fields fields' and streams long before the naturalist naturalist nat nat- awoke to self-consciousness self within me A feeling of companionship companion companion- ship with nature came long prior to tonny any conscious desire for accurate and specific knowledge about her works I loved the flowers and the wild creatures creatures crea crea- tures tares as ns most healthy children do long b ore he I knew t th tre was a study stu r ras as as botany or natural history And when I take a n walk now now thoughts of ot natural history play pIny only a n secondary part I suspect It Is more to bathe the tile spirit In ln natural Influences than to store th the mind with natural facts I 1 think I know what Emerson means when he be says In his journal that a n walk In the woods Is one of the secrets for tor dodging old age |