Accounts Quote by Joseph Dalton Hooker

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as…

— Richard Dawkins

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to…

— William Faulkner

My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the…

— Sophie Ristelhueber

My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

— Kedar Joshi

To be with another scientist and make a discovery and share that with a global audience, or working with bear biologists in Alaska, by…

— Jeff Corwin

I'm a scientist - a geobiologist who's been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized that I…

— Hope Jahren

The stories of accomplishments, achievements, challenges, problems, issues, concerns pass down through history, and those are things you take with you in your personal…

— Linda Johnson Rice

I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting.

— Giles Deacon

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

— Paul Strand

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

— Marian Wright Edelman

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

I went to South America with the idea that I would be an explorer, that I'd find lost tribes, become one of them, marry…

— Yossi Ghinsberg