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> [The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/the-commonest-forms-of-amateur-natural-history-in-the-united-states/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

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## Other authors on Aquariums

## More by Marston Bates

> [Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/beyond-natural-history-other-biological-sciences-take-up-the-study-at/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

> [The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/the-parasite-that-causes-malaria-edges-through-the-cells-of-the/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

> [The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/the-deeper-problems-connected-with-advertising-come-less-from-the/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

> [“The late Alan Gregg pointed out that human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor cells within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/the-late-alan-gregg-pointed-out-that-human-population-growth-within/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

> [Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/natural-history-is-not-equivalent-to-biology-biology-is-the-study-of/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

> [“All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/all-children-are-curious-and-i-wonder-by-what-process-this-trait/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

> [The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/the-world-of-organisms-of-animals-and-plants-is-built-up-of/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

> [The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/the-commonest-forms-of-amateur-natural-history-in-the-united-states/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

> [We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/we-have-come-to-look-at-our-planet-as-a-resource-for-our-species/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

> [Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/research-is-the-process-of-going-up-alleys-to-see-if-they-are-blind/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

> [A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/a-wise-and-well-informed-humanist-has-taken-the-time-to-look-lovingly/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

> [One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/one-dictionary-that-i-consulted-remarks-that-natural-history-now/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

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