Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country. — Charles Darwin 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
Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world. — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“I learned long ago that conservation has no victories, that one must retain connections and remain involved with animals and places that… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races,… — 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
Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch… — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!” — Jules Verne 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
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
