“Pike spawn in February, March, and April because they cannot wait until May.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting. — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith 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
“The BBC's flagship natural history programme, was first shown in 1977, with The Bird That Beat The US Navy.” — Gareth Huw Davies Copy Share Image
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.” — Ernst Mayr 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
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“I’m a rather useless insomniac viscount, but”—he gestured at Minerva—“my companion here is a brilliant geologist. There’s a symposium, you see. We… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“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
Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.'… — George Eliot 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
I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“A tissue is evidently an enduring thing. It's functional and structural conditions become modified from moment to moment. Time is really the… — Alexis Carrel 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
“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
“Zach's eyelids flutter and droop, his mind a pleasant jumble—things said tonight, last year, last month, things said in dreams. He sees… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it… — C. F. W. Walther Copy Share Image
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Cajole, v. I didn't understand how someone from a competently landlocked state could be so terrified of sharks. Even in the aquarium,… — David Levithan 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
“The ridge of the Lammer-muir hills... consists of primary micaceous schistus, and extends from St Abb's head westward... The sea-coast affords a… — John Playfair 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
“The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile largely… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of government intervention. A real or fancied evil leads… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“But Linnaeus took one bold step which changed humankind’s view of our place in nature for ever. He was the first person… — Anonymous 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
“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
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