Anna Botsford Comstock

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“Perhaps half the falsehood in the world is due to lack of power to detect the truth and to express it. {{w|Nature study|Nature-study}} aids both in discernment and in expression of things as they are.”

“... the only way to become a connoisseur of honey is to keep {{w|bee}}s, for thus only may one learn to discriminate between honey made from {{w|Tilia americana|basswood}} and that gathered from {{w|clover}}; or to distinguish, at first taste, the product of {{w|orchard}} in bloom from that drawn from vagrant blossoms, which, changing day by day, mark the season's processional.”

“A real {{w|Natural history|naturalist}} is never contented with maps of places and pictures of things, but always desires to see the places and things themselves.”