For the nature-writer, while he may be more or less of a scientist, is never mere scientist - zoologist or botanist. Animals are not his theme; flowers are not his theme. Nothing less than the universe is his theme, as it pivots on him, around the distant boundaries of his immediate neighborhood.


The Face of the Fields, Chapter V (p. 116), Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1911


For the nature-writer, while he may be more or less of a scientist, is never mere scientist - zoologist or botanist. Animals are not his theme;...

For the nature-writer, while he may be more or less of a scientist, is never mere scientist - zoologist or botanist. Animals are not his theme;...

For the nature-writer, while he may be more or less of a scientist, is never mere scientist - zoologist or botanist. Animals are not his theme;...

For the nature-writer, while he may be more or less of a scientist, is never mere scientist - zoologist or botanist. Animals are not his theme;...