gilbert white

The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of much more consequence, and have much more influence in the economy of nature, than the incurious are aware of and are mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention and from their numbers and fecundity.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The message of the study is water for the future. What we are suggesting is water protection for our children and grandchildren.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I make no doubt but there are three species of the willow-wrens two I know perfectly but have not been able yet to procure the third.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Freshwater supplies in the Middle East now are barely sufficient to maintain a quality standard of living.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The mention of hews put me in mind that there is a total failure of that wild fruit, so conducive to the support of many of the winged nation.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

As the population in this region continues to grow and economic development increases, these countries must work together to ensure that ecosystems are preserved and adequate water supplies sustained.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have procured some of the mice mentioned in my former letters, a young one and a female with young, both of which I have preserved in brandy.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Providence has been so indulgent to us as to allow of but one venomous reptile of the serpent kind in these kingdoms, and that is the viper.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Gilbert White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes