The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study of life at the level of the individual-of what plants and animals do, how they react… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the ways in which scientists have tried to analyze the world... THE BEST INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL HISTORY… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“The late Alan Gregg pointed out that human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor cells within… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography. — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way,"… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
