An Inquiring and Sympathic Spirit - Nature Study

"Now and then, take the children for a ramble in the woods or fields, or go to the brook or lake. Call their attention to the interesting things they you meet-whether you yourself understand them or not-in order to teach them to see and find some point of sympathy; for every one of them will some day need the solace and rest which this nature-love can give them. It is not the mere information that is valuable; that may be had by asking someone wiser than they, but the inquiring and sympathetic spirit is one's own."
What is Nature Study? Liberty Hyde Bailey, 1904.