20 APRIL 1951, Page 13

COUNTRY LIFE

RETURNING from a journey to Edinburgh which had occupied two nights in the train and a full and busy day I was again reminded of what a distinguished naturalist said to me recently ; that he would be content to take the same short walk around his cottage daily, to let nature bring her drama to this small stage. Only when such hermit-habits are broken, as mine have been this week, do we appreciate their intensive value.