Excerpt from A Nature Wooing at Ormond by the Sea I prefer an oak tree to a temple; grass to a brick pavement; wild flowers beneath a blue sky to exotic orchids under glass. I would walk where I do not risk being jostled, and, if I see fit to swing my arms, leap a ditch or climb a tree, I want no gaping crowd, when I do so. To hedge me in. In short, I prefer living next neighbor to Nature.' - 0. C. Abbott. I wish so to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and in spirations from the commonest events, every day phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive in my daily walk may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me. - Thoreau. 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.