Show HACKING BACK TO NATURE few there them are without strong feeling of kinship with the things of ane wild A bond from which we are never free unites us to mother earth the appeal of the refinements of civilization Is strong they are needed and they have become an integral part of 0 our life but somewhere in our na tures is something that always barks back ba ck to nature this feeling of close kinship with wild v ild things the stream the birds and animals the woods gives strength to the soul were we to live always on the artificial heights we should become enervated for the earth is our home from the actual physical earth wo we gain strength of body and mind from considering it we learn lessons of df truth and purity and order and the foundations of belity are all found in the material world our love of nature our longing sometimes to got get out into the wilds comes though we may never realize it from our need of 0 these things with all our refinements we shall never do so well without the knowledge of the kindly earth as with it 11 even in winter there is much to learn much to enjoy and we lose much when we think we can do without our close communion with the mother of us as all |