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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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33. excitement of finding nests, eggs and fledglings - but why this extraordinary quest and activity on the part of a mere infant? The nests were always taken down for more careful examination and after a study of the contents were made, curiously enough were replaced - but how securely I should be hesitant to say - but without disturbing the eggs or the young. The motive, then was not destructive. Knowing myself, such activity was perhaps merely a display of an existent super abundant nervous energy - a characteristic that from the cradle on, with its first over-exuberance of youth, had outlived the intermittent years. For a child manifesting a like interest and activity today, our modern psychologists might predict for him the future of a naturalist, or perhaps that of a scientist, or even more likely he might become a biologist. An anthropologist, however, might believe - and not without unfounded reason - that he had stumbled out and discovered the missing link. But not so! From the very beginning I was going to be an artist. This knowledge is the very first recollection of the awareness
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33. excitement of finding nests, eggs and fledglings - but why this extraordinary quest and activity on the part of a mere infant? The nests were always taken down for more careful examination and after a study of the contents were made, curiously enough were replaced - but how securely I should be hesitant to say - but without disturbing the eggs or the young. The motive, then was not destructive. Knowing myself, such activity was perhaps merely a display of an existent super abundant nervous energy - a characteristic that from the cradle on, with its first over-exuberance of youth, had outlived the intermittent years. For a child manifesting a like interest and activity today, our modern psychologists might predict for him the future of a naturalist, or perhaps that of a scientist, or even more likely he might become a biologist. An anthropologist, however, might believe - and not without unfounded reason - that he had stumbled out and discovered the missing link. But not so! From the very beginning I was going to be an artist. This knowledge is the very first recollection of the awareness
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