“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.” — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn” — Jo Ann Butler Copy Share Image
“Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.” — E.O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“But, for now, I retreated back down the little hidden staircase into the familiar world of the basement of the Natural History… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
People are used to seeing natural history programmes that have been filmed over many years which are concentrated, focused visions of natural… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
“That our age is thought to be less epic than those worlds on offer at natural history museums is only an illusion.” — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and… — Michael E. DeBakey 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
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
In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“The good news was that "biology" turned out to be the magic password for working at the Museum of Natural History, just… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“In the last eight weeks I had experienced two of the three best times of my adult life, assuming all visits to… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural… — Van Day Truex 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
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
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
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of… — Thomas Huxley 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
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“In fact, the words perfectibilité and civilisation made their first appearance in any European language in the 1750s. The adjective ‘social’ acquired… — Pankaj Mishra 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
“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
There are two modes of criticism. One which ... crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, however, that at the very lowest point of Kant's depression, when he became perfectly incapable of conversing with any… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“Ralph Gomory, the President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, proposes a tripartite division of science: the known, the unknown, and the… — Joseph Traub 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
“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
“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
“decade after the first edition of this book was published, Yan Wong and I met in the fitting surroundings of the Oxford… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The next morning I told Mom I couldn't go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, “The same… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
![“Other thing about [Field Museum of Natural History] which inspired was that in a group of pots you wouldn't see a single example of this kind of pot. You would perhaps see a case with 20 different examples. So you realize that these pots could be repeated again and again, and each time there would…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/warren-mackenzie-4654_again-and-again_other-thing-about-field-museum-of-natura_494272.jpg)
![“Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my…” quote by Carl Linnaeus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53a/carl-linnaeus-18673_animal_yet-man-does-recognise-himself-as-an-ani_1012426.jpg)
![“[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fc/warren-mackenzie-4654_ancient_in-the-field-museum-of-natural-history-w_183538.jpg)
![“Josephy visited several leading Manhattan bookstores and sadly discovered the explanation [from his agent] to be generally correct; books about Indians were shelved in the back of the stores alongside books about natural history, dinosaurs, plants, birds, and animals rather than being placed…” quote by Bobby Bridger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/bobby-bridger-153131_books_josephy-visited-several-leading-manhatta_1664837.jpg)
