Quotes by Naturalists - Page 2

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think all the walks I want to take all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal every flower a window opening into heaven a mirror reflecting the Creator.
John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers the winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir
I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.
Charles Darwin
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the "Survival of the fittest" is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
Charles Darwin
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
Charles Darwin
For the mind disturbed the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
Edwin Way Teale
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
Charles Darwin
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
Pliny the Elder
We live on the leash of our senses.
Diane Ackerman
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny the Elder
The honester the man the worse luck.
John Ray
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Home is where the heart is.
Pliny
Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older as spreading oak gives more shelter.
Richard Jeffries
Few persons realize how much of their happiness such as it is is dependent upon their work.
John Burroughs
Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you and not you overtake it.
John Burroughs
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.
John Lubbock
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
John Muir
I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
Edwin Way Teale
In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)
Pliny the Elder
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience.
Charles Darwin
Women distrust men too much in general and too little in particular.
Philibert Commerson
Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.
Georges de Buffon
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
John Burroughs
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
Edwin Way Teale
Shoemaker stick to your last.
Pliny
To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire good marriage same rule.
Marnie Reed Crowell
Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
Joseph Wood Krutch
We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Theodore Roosevelt
An enthusiast may bore others but he has never a dull moment himself.
John Kieran
I am a part of all I have read.
John Kieran
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt
Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.
Ronald Rood
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch
How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
John Burroughs
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
Theodore Roosevelt
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson
We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the rights of property... But we feel that if in exceptional cases there is any conflict between the rights of property and the rights of man, then we must stand for the rights of man.
Theodore Roosevelt
Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.
Theodore Roosevelt
Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can never be a sculpture. It can be elegant and very beautiful, but it can never be sculpture. Captive to facts - or predetermined form - it cannot fly.
Peter Matthiessen
Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
Theodore Roosevelt
High time he had another tutor,' said Larry. 'You leave the house for five minutes and come back and find him disembowelling Moby Dick on the front porch.' 'I'm sure he didn't mean any harm,' said Mother, ' but it was rather silly for him to do it on the veranda.
Gerald Durrell