We have no natural history of birds written yet. It cannot be written but by a scholar and a gentleman; and no English gentleman in recent times has ever thought of birds except as flying targets, or flavourous dishes.


Love's Meinie, Lecture I, 3 (p. 7), John Wiley & Son. 1873

John Ruskin Quotes

We have no natural history of birds written yet. It cannot be written but by a scholar and a gentleman; and no English gentleman in recent times has...

We have no natural history of birds written yet. It cannot be written but by a scholar and a gentleman; and no English gentleman in recent times has...

We have no natural history of birds written yet. It cannot be written but by a scholar and a gentleman; and no English gentleman in recent times has...

We have no natural history of birds written yet. It cannot be written but by a scholar and a gentleman; and no English gentleman in recent times has...