Gilbert White Quotes

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

I love nature.

We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

My mother loved to take us on walks in the mountains or the hills and she would point out different species that she identified, both fauna and flora.

Normally when I have students over, we sit in the house and look at the fields to try to catch a glimpse of a bobcat hunting.

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.