Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Josephy visited several leading Manhattan bookstores and sadly discovered the explanation [from his agent] to be generally correct; books about Indians were… — Bobby Bridger Copy Share Image
The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
If it's a beautiful day we love to go to the Museum of Natural History. They have sprinklers. It's what passes for… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
“Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million; biology took away… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Must the interest of life wane for us all as the progress of knowledge curtails the playground of imagination? No doubt it… — EHA Introduced By Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less… — Hans Sloane Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. When we opened our… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“A diet based on quantity rather than quality has ushered a new creature onto the world stage: the human being who manages… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“There was a time—until very recently in the scheme of things—when there were no wild animals, because every animal was wild; and… — Kathleen Jamie Copy Share Image
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know -… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter,” Reagan said. “He already likes you. I think he’s into the nerdy schoolgirl thing. He talks about you like… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The question is, does the educated citizen know he is only a cog in an ecological mechanism? That if he will work… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
