Natural History Quotes

• In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • History
  • Food
  • Animals

• Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.

  

  George Eliot
  • Enthusiasm
  • Punished
  • Natural History

• It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • History
  • Organization
  • Custom