Perception based on senses

I quote a segment of John Burroughs text in The Art of Seeing things.
"Of course one's powers of observation may be cultivated as well as anything else. The senses of seeing and hearing may be quickened and trained as well as the sense of touch. Blind persons come to be marvelously acute in their powers of touch. Their feet find the path and keep it. THey come to know the lay of the land through this sense, and recognize the roads and surfaces they have once traveled over."

I think most people agree that human beings rely primarily on their sense of sight, in fact we rely on it so much that it's very stressing to imagine a world without sight, and hearing seems to take second place. Burroughs explains that a blind persons sense of touch becomes much more acute and strong because it becomes their primary form of perceiving the world, and while he does not speculate on their ability to hear, you can imagine their hearing ability is probably enhanced as well. However, I believe there is a subtext going on in the paragraph above and that is that perhaps we take our other senses, like hearing, taste, smell, and touch for granted. Although we use them all the time subconsciously we don't seem to place as much importance on them, now imagine if they were just taken away, it would be a severe loss for us then. Im not condoning that you should be going around touching and smelling everything you come to encounter, but at times where you can purposefully use these senses, just be aware that you do have them and you should be using them graciously. In fact just to get a taste of this as an experiment I thought maybe one day walking around with a pair of goggles maybe painted over pitch black so I couldn't see anything, and then bringing a friend along for my own safety would help put things into perspective for me, and to understand what life is like without the sense of sight.