Bigs Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and…

— E. O. Wilson

In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as…

— Richard Louv

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of…

— Charlotte Mason

The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit…

— E. O. Wilson

Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage…

— E. O. Wilson

The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science…

— Henry David Thoreau

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

— Charles Lindbergh

I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about what you…

— Greg Graffin

“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so…

— Michael Pollan