Excerpt from A Last Diary, 1921 Supplied the inspiration of Enjoying Life, the volume of essays that revealed him more distinctively in the character of a naturalist and a man of letters. Still, the diary was primarily written for himself. It was his means of self-expression, the secret chamber of his soul into which no other person, how ever deep in his love and confidence, might penetrate. More than once I asked him to let me look at those parts which he thought suitable for publication, but shyly he turned aside the suggestion with the remark: Some day, perhaps, but not now. All I ever saw was a part of the first essay in Eiybying Life, and an account of his wanderings in a spirit of burning exultation over the great stretch of sandy burrows at the estuary of that beautiful Devonshire river, the Taw, where in long days of solitude he first taught himself with the zeal and patience of the born naturalist the ways of birds and fish and insects, and learnt to love the sweet harmony of the sunlight and the flowers; where, too, as a mere boy he first meditated upon the mysteries of life and death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.