Quotes About Observation

She sometimes found herself standing in the barn watching her fowl pecking the seed, feeling happy until she realised she wasn't.

Lawrence says, "I have an old maiden aunt too, and her place smells just like this. What [i] is [/i] that smell, anyway?" "Age and desperation?" I suggest. "Bitterness and despair?" Vanessa says. "Baked fish?" says Harry. "She does like tilapia," I admit.

My grandad used to tell me that if you want to get up-close and personal with birds, you must sit and remain still for at least twenty minutes.

Birdwatching is also the perfect entry point to rekindle our innate bond with the natural world

Birdwatching will never yield instant gratification. It depends on acceptance and patience...

He has the good reporter's gift for being in the right place at the right moment, and the structure and rhythm of his sentences show how well he has mastered his medium. After

He has the good reporter's gift for being in the right place at the right moment, and the structure and rhythm of his sentences show how well he has mastered his medium.

My father didn't tell me how to live he lived, and let me watch him do it.

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

What did I know about whatever it was that others obviously saw in me? how would I know if I went around with my stomach pressed into the dust of the ground. Truth has no witness? being isn't knowing? If a person doesn't look and doesn't see, does the truth exist anyway? THe truth that doesn't transmit itself even to those who can see. Is that the secret of being a person?

Qué soy? Soy: estar de pie ante un espanto. Soy: lo que he visto. No entiendo y temo entender, la materia del mundo me espanta, con sus planetas y sus cucarachas

Y cada cosa que me suceda yo la vivo aquí anotándola. Porque quiero sentir en mis manos indagadoras el nervio vivo y trémulo del hoy.

Sou como você me vê. Posso ser leve como uma brisa ou forte como uma ventania. Depende de quando e como você me vê passar.

It's like this: only when man takes notice through his simple gaze does a beginning appear to him.

Eles olhavam e não a viam. Ela fazia mais sombra do que existia.

I understand a hen, perfectly. I mean, the intimate life of a hen, I know how it is.

But he surrenders to it voluptuously, benevolently observing his confused desire to breathe frequently, deeply, to bare himself in the sun, to take the girl's hand.

I was really in the room.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Experimentation is an active science.

either I can be like some traveler of the olden days, who was faced with a stupendous spectacle, all, or almost all, of which eluded him, or worse still, filled him with scorn and disgust; or I can be a modern traveler, chasing after the vestiges of a vanished reality....A few hundred years hence, in this same place another traveler, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

Antérieur à l'évolutionnisme biologique, théorie scientifique, l'évolutionnisme social n'est, trop souvent, que le maquillage faussement scientifique d'un vieux problème philosophique dont il n'est nullement certain que l'observation et l'induction puissent un jour fournir la clef. (p.20)

The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.