The Pleasures of Ignorance

A person will never know how little they actually know about the surroundings they live in including nature. Take a walk outside and imagine how much you have yet to learn about the Earth. Enjoy this wonderful book on just that....... From the book: And, if we can forget books, it is as easy to forget the months and what they showed us, when once they are gone. Just for the moment I tell myself that I know May like the multiplication table and could pass an examination on its flowers, their appearance and their order. To-day I can affirm confidently that the buttercup has five petals. (Or is it six? I knew for certain last week.) But next year I shall probably have forgotten my arithmetic, and may have to learn once more not to confuse the buttercup with the celandine. Once more I shall see the world as a garden through the eyes of a stranger