---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Whittier, John Greenleaf
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 21
number: 7
published: 1918-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Whittier, John Greenleaf, \"Nature's Peace,\" *Improvement Era* 21, no. 7 (May 1918): 617."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2107unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2107unse
start_page: 617
end_page: 617
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2107unse
  publication_year: 1918
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Nature’s Peace

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OUTLINES FOR SCOUT WORKERS.                           617

egg or nest of the above mentioned birds. This section sbalL not be construed to protect the English sparrow, blue heron, squack, magpie, blue
copper hawk or ratted hawk. Provided, that pelicans or hood mergansers
may be killed by the permission of the state commissioner. Any person
violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

                           Nature's Peace

                                (Selected)

                I read each misty mountain sign,

                I know    the voice of wave and pine,
                And I am yours, and ye are mine.

                Life's burdens fall, its discords cease,
                I lapse into the   glad release
                Of Nature's own exceeding peace.
                                                            Whittier.