A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French
Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and
observing the world around his Hampshire home. Daily rainfall
levels and temperature shifts were recorded with home-made
instruments. Bird song and seasonal migrations were noted. The
feeding habits of frogs, bats and mice were jotted into his diaries
and nature journals, as were the simple delights he felt hearing a
cricket in the meadow or a blackbird in the hedgerows. The
extraordinary detail of the natural history he described has given
us, two hundred years later, a glimpse into ecosystems untouched by
industry and an account of how changes in global climate can affect
local weather patterns. Gilbert White is now considered England's
first ecologist. The Natural History of Selborne is one the most
published books in the English language. Yet the most enduring
quality of his writing is the spirit of curiosity that bounds
across every page, inspiring us to explore the abundance of life at
our doorsteps and around our parishes.
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