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It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.
I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.
Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
Steve was such an example as one man doing what he could to change the world.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.
I'm real adamant that, when we have family time scheduled, that we stick to it.
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved
Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.
Good nutrition and regular exercise definitely help you cope with life's dramas.
Steve was every woman's fantasy: macho but not a jerk, sensitive but not a wuss.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.
Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs.
A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.
The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.
The thing is, Steve's a great role model, and he won't sit there and tell you that.
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.
One thing I encourage a lot of people to realize and do is to just have an adventure.
... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.
Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.
I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.
In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.
The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
I don't know a single surfer who would say, 'Gee, I wish there were no sharks in the ocean.'
If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
It pays to be in the best shape possible when you're wrangling the largest reptiles on Earth!
Bindi went in with the crocodiles when she was one month old and grew up with the crocodiles.
Our message, without preaching, is how to treat wildlife and to have empathy for all animals.
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.