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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
“My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors,… — Michael Pollan 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
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“I was never surprised that they did not have a phoenix on display. There is only one phoenix at a time, of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The question is, does the educated citizen know he is only a cog in an ecological mechanism? That if he will work… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Thomas Wollaston, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, complained that Darwin did no seem to know what a species actually… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
“I must study politics and war," wrote John Adams, "that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics, and philosophy, geography,… — Charles Krauthammertha Copy Share Image
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I have a fairly unwieldy set of concerns that go into determining what I do in the paintings, such as the history… — Philip Taaffe 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes. — Nicolas Bentley 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
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
When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“All items listed above belong in the world In which all things are continuous, And are parts of the original dream which… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If you don't work near a water cooler and hanker for the company of fellow natural history enthusiasts, 'The Blue Planet II… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
![“What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are taken out of context and how we're forced to view them as objects, as relics, as sculpture- static. But what's interesting is what it allows me to do in my…” quote by Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/128/nick-cave-1153_art_what-i-think-about-when-i-frequent-the-m_2275702.jpg)
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