Amateur Quote by Marston Bates

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

— Giles Deacon

I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was…

— Frans Lanting

The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has…

— Roger Tory Peterson

A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at…

— Michael Pollan

Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but…

— Van Day Truex

I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels…

— John Burroughs

The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering…

— Andrea Barrett

The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative…

— Henry David Thoreau

One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way,"…

— Marston Bates

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was…

— Tom Weston-Jones