To Have Been Torn From

I Looked Long And Carefully At The Picture Of A Stag Painted By Landseer - The Style Was Good, And The Brush Was Handled With Fine Effect, But He Fails In Copying Nature, Without Which The Best Work Will Be A Failure.

. . .nature Indifferently Copied Is Far Superior To The Best Idealities.

As I Grew Up I Was Fervently Desirous Of Becoming Acquainted With Nature.

How Could I Make A Little Book, When I Have Seen Enough To Make A Dozen Large Books?

A Mocking Bird Regularly Resorts To The South Angle Of A Chimney Top And Salutes Us With Sweetest Notes From The Rising Of The Moon Until About Midnight.