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Gilbert White Quotes

English - Scientist | July 18, 1720 - June 26, 1793

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

Nature Play Drink Over Surface Like

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.

Nature Find Variety Greatest Most

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.

Great Time Rose Country Bull Wild

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

Fields Gardens Abound

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

Better Want Informed Regard

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

Person Summer Hand Out Take Last

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

Numbers Summer Ground Some Every

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

History Think Natural French General

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

Live Birds Woods Country Hills Full

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

Forest Much Taking Vast District

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.

Moment People Morals Loss Deer More

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.

Snow Day Deep Doors One Day Month

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