The Little Giant's Neighbours.= A charming nature story of a "little giant" whose neighbours were the creatures of the field and garden.

These people, at a very remote epoch, emerged from a country highly civilised, but sunk in the superstitions of nature-worship.

It is difficult to estimate some of the effects of living in the midst of real nature on children; unconsciously, they acquire much deep knowledge impossible to learn through nature study, however good, a kind of knowledge that is part of their being; but how far it affects them emotionally or enters into their scheme of life, is hard to say.

We shall hardly find, even in the philosophy of Leibnitz, or in the nature myths of our Indians, any such impression of living nature as this poet awakens in us.

Nature hath not treated him unkindly; had his birth and education been equal to his mind, the senate might have been glad to listenat it is, I fear he speaks in a sense to endanger his own interests.

Such is the philosophy of Wordsworth's nature poetry.

He that begirt each zone, To whom both poles are one, Who grasped the zodiac in his hand, And made it move or stand, Is now by nature man, By stature but a span; Eternity is now grown short; A king is born without a court; The water thirsts; the fountain's dry; And life, being born, made apt to die.

What is the real aim of what we call Nature-lessons, Nature-teaching, Nature-work?

What is the real aim of what we call Nature-lessons, Nature-teaching, Nature-work?

The nature hour.

Nature lovers they can be justly styled,if such love may discriminate between the beautiful and the ugly aspects of the natural.

Judging by his own nature books, with their barbaric records of slaughter, his experience of wild animals was gained while killing them.

In Poe's "William Wilson," to which Stevenson is plainly indebted, the evil nature triumphs over the good.

Who would in such a gloomy state remain Longer than nature craves, when every Muse And every blooming pleasure wait without, To bless the wildly devious morning walk?" Exquisite indeed!

Atoms aura reveals secrets of celestial-white light-nature atoms.

In that volume, not a syllable can be found to justify that form of infidelity, which in the abused name of piety, reproaches us for practicing the lessons which "nature teacheth.

Does human nature change.

O! reason not the need; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's.

Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train; Eased of her load, subjection grows more light, And poverty looks cheerful in thy sight; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.

And not only this, but he also denominates those nature gods that are always united to the gods, and which, in conjunction with them, give completion to one series.

CYBELE, a nature-goddess worshipped in Phrygia and W. Asia, whose worship, like that of the nature divinities generally, was accompanied with noisy, more or less licentious, revelry; identified by the Greeks with RHEA (q. v.), their nature-goddess.

whom Nature boon 470 Cheers with her smiles, and every element Conspires to bless.

Nature sinks, no more to rise While JEHOVAH fills the skies With his glory high, sublime Death is dead, and perished time!

And here was the record of a nature-people whose conduct stood revealed as flawless.

7. Isis was the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus; as a nature goddess she had a place in the boat of the sun at the creation, when she probably typified the dawn.