'Why do we always have to name things, classify them, put them in boxes?' Photo: Linnaeus’s System of Botany, plate one, 1777

Thought for the week: Catherine Henderson is out of order

‘Learning happens when we wander across borders, refusing to be contained within them.’

Thought for the week: Catherine Henderson is out of order

by Catherine Henderson 31st July 2020

Yesterday a tiny bird was perched on our television aerial, singing incredibly sweetly. But instead of just letting me listen, my busy mind came butting in, wanting to know its name.