Naturalist Quotes

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The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for… — E. O. Wilson
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the… — Louis Agassiz
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything… — 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
The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while… — Henry David Thoreau
It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared… — Charles Darwin
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and… — Henry David Thoreau
If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatile… — Robert Boyle
Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides… — David Quammen
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong.… — Michael Ruse
Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country. — Charles Darwin
God created animals. And theyâ€™re loving; theyâ€™re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I donâ€™t find my… — Michael Jackson
The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape. — David Weinberger
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look with confidence to… — Charles Darwin
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.… — John Berger
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns… — James Hutton

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