Evening star., 1933-11-10

What vacations do for some people
| the seasons do for all of us. Whether
we realize it or not, they enable us to
change our habits, and all the better II
consciously.
Winter ends many minor annoyance
of the everyday. In some cases it brings
on new duties, but sees the finish Of
old ones for time.
The pageant of the seasons. therefore
is something worth keeping in mind, II
one is trying to get the honest most out
of life as one goes along.
How many persons there are who let
events hustle them!
Many of these cannot help the
hustling, while others participate In II
as a good thing.
Those who happen to be so situated
however, ought to lift their eyes to the
stars, from time to time, as very self
conscious action, done of a purpose, and
of their own free will.
They should feel the seasons, in their
coming and going, as very interesting
changes so old that most persons have
forgotten to wonder about them, but
SO young that no one has solved them in
the least.
Emerson, great Nature lover, delighted
to experience consciously the roll of the
four seasons. Somewhere in his many
writings he pictures them as green
golden, brown, and white, in order, be-
ginning with Spring.
Perhaps the finest thing about keen
love of Nature, or the nature OF
things" as the poet put 1t some 1000
years ago, is that the one who appreciates
these rampantly subtle changes need not
be publicly recognized as a lover OF
natural things at all
No one need be famous, or known to
any one else as such, to be friend of
Nature sincerely and consciously, In his
own perfect right.
Sometimes ele is inclined to feel that
no city in the United States has more
genuine Nature lovers than this beauti-
ful city of ours, known far and wide as
Washington, D. C.
There are, above all, corps of men
and women in Government service
whose life work is devoted to various
aspects Of Nature.
These persons, called scientists, are
first and foremost the friends of Nature.
Early likes for the various children of
Nature led them to their life works, and
now they are here among us, stimulat-
ing and helping all.
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The men and women these workers
contact" in the popular business sense,
no doubt are influenced by them to the
extent of being more or less consciously
interested in animals, birds, flowers, and
the hundred and one other phases of
Nature in action. Then there comes the
entire gamut of Nature in inaction, or
at least SO it seems, in the rocks, eternal
hills, and SO on.
Into this widening circle of in
terest then comes the average man, the
simple Nature lover who has no special
knowledge, but who, perhaps for that
very reason, has a very great deal of
interest in his mental makeup for the
thousand and one Intriguing features
OF this strange universe.
TheSe people, one and all, scientists
and laymen, know and appreciate the
classical Nature writings, from the days
OF the great Greeks and Romans to our
own John Burroughs and Ralph Waldo
Emerson, their contemporaries and fol-
lowers.
The best part Of it all Is that It
doesn't make bit of difference in the
world whether any other human being
knows about you as a friend Of Nature,
If you are thoroughly conscious of your
own interest, and your own small but