Naturalists Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in… — Loren Eiseley
We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the… — Charlotte Mason
In everyÂ bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young… — 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
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
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 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

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