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 billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. - Marston Bates
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
- Marston Bates
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less … - Marston Bates
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less …
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… - Marston Bates
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…
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 … - Marston Bates
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 …
Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues… - Marston Bates
Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues…
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… - Marston Bates
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…
The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and natu… - Marston Bates
The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and natu…
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… - Marston Bates
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…
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way,"… - Marston Bates
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way,"…
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