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• Robert Lynd – The Pleasures of IgnoranceDescription: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.
• It is impossible to take a walk in the country oneself without being amazed at the vast continent of one’s own ignorance.
• 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.
• Probably in a modern city the man who can distinguish between a thrush’s and a blackbird’s song is the exception.
• It is not that we have not seen the birds.