Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [ Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal ]” — John Muir Copy Share Image
The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape. — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists. — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to.… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“What is absolutely certain is that the naturalist view of things is, as I have said, just a picture of the world,… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist. — Paul Sears Copy Share Image
In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice. — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
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