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I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.

— Peter Heller

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because…

— Chuck Close

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

— Zbigniew Herbert

These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still…

— Gavin Douglas

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for…

— Jack Prelutsky

I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.

— Kiki Smith

My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30…

— Lynn Margulis

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

— Joy Mangano

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

— Pierre Loti

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

— Stephen Sprouse

My grandmother had a cupboard where she kept her collections and textile samples of all sorts of things. When I had good grades, I…

— Hubert de Givenchy