Excerpt from Nature Near Home: And Other Papers Many a walk I take in the fields and woods when I gather no new facts and make no new observa tions; and yet I feel enriched. I have been for an hour or more on intimate terms with trees and rocks and grass and birds and with Nature's primal sanities; the fragrance of the wild things lingers about my mind for days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.