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Children can be taken occasionally to the country to see what the sun looks like as they are taken now to see a hill or a mountain. Probably many of them will not want to go anyway, for the country will be to them only what it was to the London club man: “A damp sort of place where all sorts of birds fly about uncooked.”

Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) American educator, writer, critic, naturalist

The Twelve Seasons, “June” (1949)

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WIST - Krutch, Joseph Wood | The Twelve Seasons, "June" (1949)

Children can be taken occasionally to the country to see what the sun looks like as they are taken now to see a hill or a mountain. Probably many of them will not want to go anyway, for the country will be to them only what it was to the…