Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
“Floods are an act of God; flood damages result from the acts of men.” — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time,… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
