Critical Quote by E. O. Wilson

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and…

— E. O. Wilson

Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as…

— Richard Louv

I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear.

— Tim Crane

Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I by no…

— Charles Darwin

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of…

— Charlotte Mason

“Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The…

— Richard J. Borden

Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own…

— William Penn

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic…

— Charles Lyell

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

— Willa Cather

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

— Paul Cezanne