The Council of the Selborne Society urgently requests visitors to treat the country they are visiting with the reverence due to natural beauty.

DON’T gather such quantities of wild flowers and ferns that before the day is over you are obliged to throw them away on the roadside. By such gathering you injure the flora of the district, and you take away pleasures from many people who like to see flowers and ferns growing in their native haunts.

DON’T disturb the birds in their breeding season.

DON’T litter the places visited with waste papers or torn letters.

DON’T leave empty bottles and other dÉbris of your picnic to vulgarise the spots, the scenery of which you have been enjoying.