Gilbert White Quotes

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

Nature, Play, Drink

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
Gilbert White

Gardens, Fields, Abound

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.
Gilbert White

Informed, Regard

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

Person, Last, Hand

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.
Gilbert White

Nature, Greatest, Find

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

Summer, Ground, Numbers

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

History, Natural, General

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

Live, Country, Full

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

Taking, Forest, Parish

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

May, Country, Leave

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.
Gilbert White

Time, Great, Country

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.
Gilbert White

Moment, Though, Loss

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.
Gilbert White

Snow, Deep, Point

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: July 18, 1720

Died: June 26, 1793

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