Occupation: Author Birth: July 23, 1906 Death: April 3, 1974
The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study of life at the leve….
The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and natu….
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less ….
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the ways in which ….
We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billio….
Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues….
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way,"….
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology ….
The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually bursts to re….
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind..