“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.” — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.” — E.O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn” — Jo Ann Butler Copy Share Image
The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“I think he’s into the nerdy schoolgirl thing. He talks about you like you’re something he found in a natural history museum.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools. — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb 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
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
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
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
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
“Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls,… — Joni L. James 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
“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
All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to… — Hiroshi Sugimoto 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
“While some accused and convicted child molesters have inappropriately influenced the media, the public, and many in the clinical and legal professions… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image
Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“John Stanwell-Fletcher published an article in Natural History magazine, declaring that after spending three years in the Canadian wilderness, he believed more… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Great travel writing consists of equal parts curiosity, vulnerability and vocabulary. It is not a terrain for know-it-alls or the indecisive. The… — Tom Miller 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
“The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
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
