It is impossible to take a walk in the country with an average townsman-especially, perhaps, in April or May-without being amazed at the vast continent of his ignorance.
We have been surrounded by birds all our lives, yet so feeble is our observation that many of us could not tell whether or not the chaffinch sings, or the colour of the cuckoo..
It is simply that we have not noticed them.
It is not that we have not seen the birds.
Probably in a modern city the man who can distinguish between a thrush\'s and a blackbird\'s song is the exception.
Thousands of men and women live and die without knowing the difference between a beech and an elm, between the song of a thrush and the song of a blackbird.
It is impossible to take a walk in the country oneself without being amazed at the vast continent of one\'s own ignorance.
It is impossible to take a walk in the country with an average townsman-especially, perhaps, in April or May-without being amazed at the vast continent of his ignorance
