Quotes About Natural history

All those moments, captured and doubled onto film, frozen, her own museum of natural history unfolding in front of her.

The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter. The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Let's Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell The Aubrey/Maturin Novels, by Patrick O'Brian The Ibis Trilogy, by Amitav Ghosh The Golden Wolf Saga, by Linnea Hartsuyker Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky Coyote Warrior, by Paul VanDevelder

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

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.

Pigg said he was afraid that old trouts were female. "They can't all be," aunt Dot, who knew natural history and the facts of fish life, corrected him.

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

Louis C. Whiton in the August–September 1971 issue of Natural History magazine titled "Under the Power of the Gran Gadu" (Vol. 80, No. 7). Dr. Whiton had been conducting anthropological

The teeth had roots the length of a human hand, and each one weighed nearly ten pounds.

All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

The Ozarks are old and worn mountains from the geological past.

You need a system for capturing hunches, but not necessarily categorizing them, because categories can build barriers between disparate ideas, restrict them to their own conceptual islands. This is one way in which the human history of innovation deviates from the natural history. New ideas do not thrive on archipelagos.

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

Annals of the Former World—a

In the lobby of the visitor center, the glass doors had been shattered, and a cold gray mist blew through the cavernous main hall. A sign that read WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH dangled from one hinge, creaking in the wind.

The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.

For 2 billion years this is all the life there was on earth, but in that time the stromatolites raised the oxygen level in the atmosphere to 20 percent—enough to allow the development of other, more complex life-forms: me, for instance. My gratitude was real.