I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist. — Paul Sears Copy Share Image
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“You must have birds in your heart, Madam, before you can find them in the bushes," said John Burroughs, the great naturalist,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I call myself a naturalist as opposed to an atheist, but there are different styles. Some people just like to be close… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began.… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Was it a camp?" Daniel asked. Sean nodded. "A naturist camp." "Maya will feel right at home", Corey said from his spot… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in… — Antoine De Jussieu Copy Share Image
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists. — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice. — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
“John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [ Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal ]” — John Muir Copy Share Image