. Home school of American literature: . 306 Country Sights and Sounds. THE BLACK SHEEP some of the greatest truths whichlife has to teach. It is also to beborn on intimate terms with blue-birds and cherries! If you want to know wherethe biggest cherries are to befound, said Goethe,consult theboys and the blackbirds. Thereis a natural affinity between thetwo, and the boy who does notgrow up in natural relationshipwith birds and trees suffers a lossof privilege which can never be-( entirely made up. For it is agreat deal easier to make the ac- quaintance of nature in childhood than f^in those la
. Home school of American literature: . 306 Country Sights and Sounds. THE BLACK SHEEP some of the greatest truths whichlife has to teach. It is also to beborn on intimate terms with blue-birds and cherries! If you want to know wherethe biggest cherries are to befound, said Goethe,consult theboys and the blackbirds. Thereis a natural affinity between thetwo, and the boy who does notgrow up in natural relationshipwith birds and trees suffers a lossof privilege which can never be-( entirely made up. For it is agreat deal easier to make the ac- quaintance of nature in childhood than f^in those later years which bring thephilosophic mind, but which leave thesenses untrained for that instinctiveobservation which enables the boy tosee without knowing that he sees. John Burroughs has given us a char-ming description of the joys of boy-hood on a farm, and has perhaps uncon-sciously betrayed the secret of his ownextraordinary familiarity with the out-of-doors world. No knowledge is quiteso much a part of ourselves as thatwhich we gain without conscious effort;whi
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