The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape. — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch… — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Either everything in man can be traced as a development from below, or something must come from above. There is no avoiding… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Herzog and Malick both have this very unique naturalist intentionality to their process. It's about creating the mood, creating the focus and… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
“The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world. — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to.… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“What is absolutely certain is that the naturalist view of things is, as I have said, just a picture of the world,… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
