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#natural history

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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.


John Burroughs


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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.


Alfred Russel Wallace


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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.


Alfred Russel Wallace


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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.


Alfred Rosenberg


#blood #conversely #downfall #great #heroes

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.


David Attenborough


#among #competent #creature #extraordinarily #follow

Natural history is not about producing fables.


David Attenborough


#fables #history #natural #natural history #producing

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.


Charles Babbage


#assistance #branches #chemistry #chosen #departments

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.


Dominic Monaghan


#choice #concentrate #couple #films #had

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.


Gilbert White


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I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.


Ernest Thompson Seton


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