Before Quote by George Bentham

And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still…

— Gavin Douglas

You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to…

— Lennart Nilsson

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

I saved a few and I keep them in a jar.

— Owl City

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

— John Muir

Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection…

— Carl Linnaeus

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.

— Henry David Thoreau

I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered…

— Michael Feinstein

I was really interested in collecting insects.

— Satoshi Tajiri