Is like the sound of light.”
Edmund Gosse.
“Throngs of insects in the shade
Try their thin wings, and dance in the warm beam
That waked them into life.”
W. C. Bryant.
INSECT OBSERVATION.
THERE are many by-paths into the delightful realm of Nature, not so often traversed as the broad avenues which are known to every one, but equally full of interest, and not less stored with instruction of various kinds. One of these paths I follow almost daily, and with ever-increasing delight. It happens that there exists, close to the garden-room where I usually sit and write, a valley, with winding grassy paths and banks of azaleas and rhododendrons. It is a quiet and secluded spot, and has been so for the last twenty years.