Excerpt from In Berkshire FieldsWise mainly occupied, in the doubtless unscientific and haphazard observation of woodland folk and Winged, in the personalities of trees and the retreats of Wild ¿owers, that he has been moved to think such avocation cannot be Wholly evil, and that the scientists who deal With lovely or fascinating sen suons things must expect those lovely or fascinating things to be approached from other angles than theirs. One Who is not a scientist does not delib erately toy With a 4o, ooo-volt high-potential cur rent. But you or I may, . I trust, explore for the Cypripedium spectabile in its swamp, or track a wea sel over, its snowy rocks, in a spirit of pure advent ure, in the quest, let us say, for the essential ¿avor of the Wilderness, Which may come in the odor of a ¿ower or the note of a bird or the imaginative reali zation on our part of how the World looked' last night to the animal Which tracked warily here, searching for its prey.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.