Natural History Quotes

75 Natural History quotes by 55 unique authors

Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a… — David Attenborough
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use… — David Attenborough
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should… — David Attenborough
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other… — Charles Babbage
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. — John Burroughs
what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil… — Thomas Jefferson
we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two… — Thomas Jefferson
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and… — John Burroughs
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary)… — Ernst Mayr
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. — John Keats
I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me… — Charles Darwin
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of… — John Burroughs
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of… — Thomas Huxley
The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all… — Richard E. Blackwelder
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes… — Unknown Author
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular… — Unknown Author
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the… — Prince Philip
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind… — Terry Tempest Williams
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in… — Alfred Russel Wallace
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to… — Alfred Russel Wallace

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