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In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people… — Richard Louv
We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is… — Matt Chandler
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to… — Gerald Durrell
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and… — David Hume
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist… — Konrad Lorenz
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. — Jonathan Swift
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It… — C.S. Lewis
In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what… — Elbert Hubbard
Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. — Charles Darwin
Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules… — William Penn
We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive… — James K. A. Smith
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of… — Alfred Russel Wallace
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the… — Asa Gray
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain… — Edward Forbes
It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed during the time… — Alexander Agassiz
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists. — George Bernard Shaw
If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the… — Edward Hoagland
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. — Richard Owen
According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something… — Phillip E. Johnson
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have… — Phillip E. Johnson
Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have… — Edwin Way Teale
I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have… — Jane Goodall
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of… — Edward Forbes
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise… — Herbert Read

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