The Handbook of Nature Study Quotes

“Nature-study cultivates in the child a love of the beautiful . . . a perception of color, form and music . . But more than all, nature-study gives the child a sense of companionship with life out-of-doors and an abiding love of nature.”
― Anna Botsford Comstock, The Handbook of Nature Study

“The child should never be required  to learn the name of anything in the nature-study work; but the name should be used so often and so naturally in his presence, that he will learn it without being conscious of the process”
― Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study

“THE nature-study lesson should be short and sharp and may vary from ten minutes to a half hour in length.”
― Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study

“MUCH of the naughtiness in school is a result of the child’s lack of interest in his work, augmented by the physical inaction that results from an attempt to sit quietly. The best teachers try to obviate both of these rather than to punish because of them.”
― Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study

“MUCH of the naughtiness in school is a result of the child’s lack of interest in his work, augmented by the physical inaction that results from an attempt to sit quietly.”
― Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study