Gilbert White

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

— Gilbert White

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

— Gilbert White

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of…

— Gilbert White

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

— Gilbert White

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

— Gilbert White

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest…

— Gilbert White

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half…

— Gilbert White

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

— Gilbert White

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

— Gilbert White

“Floods are an act of God; flood damages result from the acts of men.”

— Gilbert White

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

— Gilbert White

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at…

— Gilbert White

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

— Gilbert White

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

— Gilbert White