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Updated: May 8, 2025
You must be intellectually honest. Do not pretend to be what you are not no affectations, no simulations, no falsehoods either of speech or thought, of conduct or attitude. Let truth abide in the very heart of you. "I take no stock in that man; he poses his face, he attitudinizes his features.
Culture and refinement take on airs it is the deepest artificial instinct of enlightenment to pose in the presence of naturalness; and there is a certain style of ignorance which attitudinizes before the gate of knowledge. The return to nature has always been the dream of the conventionalized soul, while the simple Arcadian is forever longing for the maddening honey of sophistication.
The truth is, Nature attitudinizes a little, liking to make a neat finish with everything, and then to begin again with éclat. Flowers seem spontaneous things enough, but there is evidently a secret marshalling among them, that all may be brought out with due effect.
All the wild creatures evidently regard me with mingled feelings of curiosity and distrust. A song sparrow hops and flirts and attitudinizes and peers at me from the door-sill, wondering if there is any harm in me. For the third or fourth time this season, I think, she is planning a nest. In June she began one over a window on the porch where I sleep in the open air.
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