"Though large herds of deer do much harm……" — Gilbert White
"Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops."
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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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Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
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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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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 Crops Quotes
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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering…
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