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• The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment… — E. O. Wilson
• I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
• You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For… — Louis Agassiz
• Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by… — Carl Linnaeus
• It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species';… — Charles Darwin
• [Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and… — John Burroughs
• The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will… — Henry David Thoreau
• It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or… — Charles Darwin
• Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye.… — Henry David Thoreau
• If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making… — Robert Boyle
• Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and… — David Quammen

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