Learning a few common signs trains the eye to read many others

Evidence

The signs given in this book are mainly the most common, but once they start to open your eyes to look carefully and to understand, they will make you aware of many other signs of what the woods are saying, and you will have the ground training needed to begin to understand these other signs too. — Vinson Brown, Reading the Woods, 71

Categorization

  • XREF: Reinforces the course’s premise that observation is a trainable skill transferable to unfamiliar ground. — connects to: Attention training reveals the many distinct ways one can fail to notice something

Broader Connections