English Naturalist Quotes

Joseph Banks
Henry Walter Bates
Richard Lydekker
Henry Baker (naturalist)
Francis Trevelyan Buckland

In the of...Things, tho' the most and ; the Peble or Flint, Cockle or Oyster-shell, Grass, Moss, Fern or Thistle, will be as, and as and sent, as any the rarest production of the Country. Only take care to choose of each the, and such as are or.

Who can say but your new Star [Uranus], which exceeds Saturn so much in its distance from the Sun, may exceed him as much in magnificence of attendance? Who knows what new rings, new satellites, or what other nameless and numberless phenomena remain behind, waiting to reward future industry and improvement?

Joseph Banks
Joseph Banks
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

Henry Walter Bates
Henry Walter Bates
An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed." I did so, and found it succeed as predicted.

With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.

Greater numbers dig their graves with their own teeth, and die more by those fatal instruments than the weapons of their enemies.

Nothing can be more shocking to reason than eternal time; infinite divisibility is not less absurd.

When you employ the Microscope, shake off all Prejudice, nor harbor any favorite Opinions; for, if you do, 'tis not unlikely Fancy will betray you into Error, and make you see what you wish to see.

Henry Baker (naturalist)
Henry Baker (naturalist)
Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

Your theory is most excellent, and I shall endeavor to collect facts for you with a view to its elucidation.

Francis Trevelyan Buckland
Francis Trevelyan Buckland
The habits of insects are very mines of interesting knowledge, and it is impossible carefully to watch the proceedings of any insect, however insignificant, without feeling that no writer of fiction ever invented a drama of such absorbing interest as is acted daily before our eyes, though to indifferent spectators.

The flowers and ground together make so pretty a piece of tapestry, that one might be surprised to find such colouring and workmanship hid, as it were industriously, under a rock; but the works of Nature are every where well finished, and can not be otherwise than exact and beautiful in their degree.

To the more observant class of sportsmen the stay-at-home naturalist is, of necessity, indebted for most of his information with regard to the habits of large animals and their adaptation to their inanimate environment.

Richard Lydekker
Richard Lydekker