Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Nature for Its Own Sake: First Studies in Natural Appearances
The title and the treatment of this book require a few sentences of explanation. The word "Nature," as it is used in these pages, does not comprehend animal life in any form whatever. It is applied only to lights, skies, clouds, waters, lands, foliage - the great elements that reveal form and color in landscape, the component parts of the earth-beauty about us. In treating of this nature I have not considered it as the classic or romantic background of human story, nor regarded man as an essential factor in it. Nature is neither classic nor romantic; it is simply - nature. Nor is it, as some would have us think, a sympathetic friend of mankind endowed with semi-human emotions. Mountains do not "frown," trees do not "weep," nor do skies "smile"; they are quite incapable of doing so.
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