“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.” — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which… — David Lack Copy Share Image
“In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
“When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
“Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a thing at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where I live: they have a stairwell where you follow… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
“It may have been due to the effect of the gordo blanco on my cognitive functions, but I was suddenly overwhelmed by… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I suppose the marine biology was a post-teen thing. I was kind of on my way but I was one of those… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
