Quotes about Gilbert White

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

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General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the...

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

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You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country...

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We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was...

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Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to...

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

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

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

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

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It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so...

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I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out...

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