Quotes about Natural history

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There is no definitive answer as to why cannibalism provides us with such stimulation, although what is clear, and what — Bill Schutt, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
A museum is a place where nothing was lost, just rediscovered… — Nanette L. Avery
Every new discovery about the genome is consistent with evolution having happened. Whether we find it appealing or not i — Richard Fortey, Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
It is curious why anybody should pooh-pooh a study of fossils or various forms of rocks or lava. Such things grant us ou — Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
The free market has never worked in agriculture and it never will. The economics of a family farm are very different fro — people don't eat more just because food is cheap. Even if I go out of business this land will keep producing corn.
When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; — Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile — Charles Darwin
I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Sci — Joseph Dalton Hooker, Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I.
There was a time—until very recently in the scheme of things—when there were no wild animals, because every animal was w — Kathleen Jamie, Sightlines
Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn — Jo Ann Butler
A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree. — Edward O. Wilson
Dreams of innocence are just that — they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.
Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough