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  • To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King. -- William Beebe
  • No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. -- Richard Owen
  • One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. -- E. O. Wilson
  • A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn. -- Samuel Johnson
  • According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example. -- Phillip E. Johnson
  • The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. -- Asa Gray
  • Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. -- John Berger
  • I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification. -- Greg Graffin
  • Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. -- Charles Darwin
  • I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist. -- Jane Goodall
  • Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country. -- Charles Darwin
  • It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. -- Gore Vidal
  • A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross. -- Greg Graffin
  • I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be. -- Greg Graffin
  • No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird. -- Emma Lazarus
  • So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. -- Jonathan Swift
  • Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. -- John Muir
  • I don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better. -- Greg Graffin
  • We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. -- Matt Chandler
  • Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind of science, to being very focused and really getting to the heart of these molecules. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
  • We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things. -- Charlotte Mason
  • John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that. -- Tom Bodett
  • ...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both. -- Konrad Lorenz
  • I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked. -- Matt Ridley
  • The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort. -- Greg Graffin
  • Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside. -- Robert Wilson Lynd
  • I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about what you actually do believe in, instead of when you say you're an atheist, and it's really just a statement of what you don't believe in. -- Greg Graffin
  • We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation. -- David Hume
  • I call myself a naturalist as opposed to an atheist, but there are different styles. Some people just like to be close to nature. And some people actually worship nature, which is too wishy-washy because - like a lot of religious believers - they don't depend on facts. -- Greg Graffin
  • The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes. -- Robert Wilson Lynd
  • My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they could receive the benefits of Jiu Jitsu as well. Growing up in this environment, I learned the art of Jiu Jitsu is actually a method through which one strives for self-perfection. -- Carlos Gracie, Jr.
  • I'm a biologist. At my core, I'm a naturalist. -- Jeff Corwin
  • The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist. -- Paul Sears
  • I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear. -- Tim Crane
  • The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape. -- David Weinberger
  • I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough. -- Jane Goodall
  • I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
  • The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual. -- Ted Andrews
  • In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice. -- W.N.P. Barbellion
  • Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism. -- Tim Crane
  • I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be." -- Greg Graffin
  • American naturalist John Burroughs put it, "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -- Jeff Olson
  • The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) -- John Muir
  • The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity. -- E. O. Wilson
  • Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her. -- Henry David Thoreau
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