“Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“For people who study these domains, the difference is clear. Both the Bacteria and the Archaea do not have nuclei. Whereas, you… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate… — Dominic Monaghan Copy Share Image
Other thing about [Field Museum of Natural History] which inspired was that in a group of pots you wouldn't see a single… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“I had long wanted to see “true” indigo, and thought that drugs might be the way to do this. So one sunny… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
“John Stanwell-Fletcher published an article in Natural History magazine, declaring that after spending three years in the Canadian wilderness, he believed more… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“The evidence of cheetah genetic monotony would only grow. Bob Wayne, a talented postdoctoral fellow in our lab, examined cranial measurements and… — Stephen J. O'Brien Copy Share Image
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis Copy Share Image
“A Natural History of the Senses, author Diane Ackerman says, “The brain is a good stagehand. It gets on with its work… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History,… — David H. Koch Copy Share Image
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.” — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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