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If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.
— Dominic Monaghan
In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
— Saul David
A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.
— Edward O. Wilson
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
— John Maynard Smith
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.
— Ernst W. Mayr
Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.
— Douglas Brinkley
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.
— Michael E. DeBakey
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Of all America's natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.
— Markham Shaw Pyle
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
— Ernest Thompson Seton
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
— Konrad Lorenz
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.
— William Irwin Thompson
Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.
— Nicolas Bentley
Ali was the natural choice as he was the most respected Companion still alive and was related to Prophet in two ways
— Firas Alkhateeb
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
— Robert Falcon Scott
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading.
— Henry David Thoreau
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
— Derek Walcott
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.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
When a thundering horde of drunken Vikings rush a person, it's only natural to flinch.
— Krista D. Ball
History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
— Penelope Lively
Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.
— Paul Verhoeven
Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.
— Edward O. Wilson
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
— John Burroughs
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history ... You spoil both.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.
— J. Arthur Thomson
The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.
— Mark Teixeira
No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
— Stephen Jay Gould
