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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.
When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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