Excerpt from My Life as a Naturalist<br><br>Is it not true of the vast majority of those who live in the country that they have eyes and see not, ears also and hear not As a rule, it is only the kind of idler for whom Stevenson wrote an apology, or perhaps the sportsman who hunts for pleasure, that can distinguish the songs of birds, or note the little dramas of plant and insect life that are enacted daily before their eyes.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.