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
Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists. — Richard Conniff 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
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
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
The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape. — David Weinberger 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
American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“We made love outdoors Without a roof, I like most, Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Now, as when I made films that were too autobiographical, the problem is how to escape naturalism. If you tell a strictly… — Philippe Garrel Copy Share Image
Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“I took another road, past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years. I went to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“Though usually adroit enough where her own interests were concerned, she made the mistake, not uncommon to persons in whom the social… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to… — Kenn Kaufman Copy Share Image
No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries — Charles Darwin 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
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 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
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
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
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
My dad was somewhat of a naturalist and used to teach us about different birds and trees. So did a fifth grade… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others,… — Carlos Gracie, Jr Copy Share Image
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image