Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. — William Irwin Thompson 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
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting. — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
“Pike spawn in February, March, and April because they cannot wait until May.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long… — Terry Tempest Williams 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
The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and… — Marston Bates 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
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
Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes. — Nicolas Bentley Copy Share Image
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches… — Louis Agassiz 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
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
If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
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
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature.… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
My first two kids were born in New York City, but there is a lot of exploration to be done just learning… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“I might as well have offered up my vagina to the Museum of Natural History. Surely, it would be shown in the… — Max Monroe 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
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity… — Roger Tory Peterson 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
“I feel the need to fall in love with the world, to forge that relationship ever more strongly. But maybe I don’t… — Sharman Apt Russell 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
“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
“The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size… — Lancelot Hogben 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.” — Stephen Jay Gould 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
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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