The Stories Mother Nature Told

But you will know better when you become acquainted with her, and learn how strong she is, and how active; how she can really be in fifty places at once, taking care of a sick tree, or a baby flower just born; and, at the same time, building underground palaces, guiding the steps of little travellers setting out on long journeys, and sweeping, dusting, and arranging her great house, - the earth.

And all the while, in the midst of her patient and never-ending work, she will tell us the most charming and marvellous stories of ages ago when she was young, or of the treasures that lie hidden in the most distant and secret closets of her palace; just such stories as you all like so well to hear your mother tell when you gather round her in the twilight.”

01 - The Story of the Amber Beads
02 - The New Life
03 - The Talk of the Trees That Stand in the Village Street
04 - How The Indian Corn Grows
05 - Water-lilies
06 - The Carrying Trade
07 - Sea-Life
08 - What the Frost Giants Did to Nannie’s Run
09 - How Quercus Alba Went to Explore the Underworld
10 - Treasure-Boxes
11 - A Peep into One of God’s Storehouses
12 - The Hidden Light
13 - Sixty-two Little Tadpoles
14 - Golden-Rod and Asters