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Book SynopsisTopics covered in these essays include religion, philosophy, conservation, and farming. The essays seek to emphasize the process of the literary naturalist, specifically the connection the author makes between perceiving nature and how perception permeates all aspects of life experiences.
Trade Review"So far as seeing things is an art, it is the art of keeping your eyes and ears open. The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment." - John Burroughs
Table of Contents- "The Exhilarations of the Road"; - "A Walk in the Fields"; - "Reading the Book of Nature"; - "Emerson and the Pine Tree"; - "The Faith of a Naturalist"; - "Phases of Farm Life"; - "A Hunt for the Nightingale"; - "The Ways of the Sportsman"; - "Thoreau's Wildness"; - "An Outlook upon Life"
