We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few… — David Hume 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed… — Alexander Agassiz 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
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
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
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
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
We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies… — Will Self Copy Share Image
We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general… — Louis Agassiz 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
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
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
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