Gilbert White Quotes

Gilbert White — English Scientist born on July 18, 1720, died on June 26, 1793

Gilbert White FRS was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist. He remained unmarried and a curate all his life. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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

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

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 Quotes

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