"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields." — Gilbert White
"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
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13 Quotes by Gilbert White
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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
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General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood;…
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I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.
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It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces…
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Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
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The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
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The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of…
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The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.
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Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people…
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We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and…
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You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
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I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
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More Abound Quotes
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most…
— Teresa of Avila
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
— Joseph Addison
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
— Mel Brooks
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
— Samuel Butler
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No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness…
— Archibald Alexander
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
— W. S. Gilbert
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
— Ben Jonson
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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known…
— Algernon Sidney
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many…
— Charles Lyell
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
— Bell Hooks
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The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
— Alain de Botton
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