“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 level of the individual-of what plants and animals do, how they react to each other and their environment, how they are organized into larger groupings like populations and communities.” ThinkingWorldScienceIndividualCommunityNaturalAnimalLevelsStudyEnvironmentBuiltOrganizationPlantPopulationOrganizedOrganismsPlants And AnimalsNatural HistoryNomenclature Book:The Nature of Natural History Source: The Nature of Natural History
“Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.” WorldPersonsArtLanguageNaturalViewsWonderCenturyMarkWideClassicMasterpieceTranslationsEnglish LanguageNineteenth CenturyStunningArt And ScienceNatural History Author:Daniel Walker Howe
“All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.” KnowsLongLife IsNaturalPlanetsSpeedTransformedNatural History Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them.” PersonsArtCountryHandsFacesScienceSidesNaturalWalksPleasureEducationTeachWonderfulSeaSourceWallFilledNineInnocentThis LifeWorks Of ArtDespiseGalleryCataloguesNatural History Author:Thomas Huxley
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs.” IfsHumansMightWould BeEarthUniverseNaturalBrainWonderGreaterWalkingOne DayMoonProtectTragedySpeciesPostsMuseumsDominantDinosaursHomo SapiensForesightSkeletonsStar GazingApocalypticCollisionNatural HistoryPost ApocalypticBrain PowerHistory Of Life Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson