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Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
Gilbert White |
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Author Details: Type: Scientist Quotes Category: English Scientist Quotes Date of Birth: July 18, 1720 Date of Death: June 26, 1793 Nationality: English Amazon: Gilbert White on Amazon |
Related Authors: Richard Dawkins Charles Darwin Thomas Huxley Michael Faraday Jacob Bronowski Francis Crick James Lovelock William John Wills Martin Fleischmann |
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Select Gilbert White Quotations:
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 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 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 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 I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. Gilbert White Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. Gilbert White The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. Gilbert White |
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Quote Keywords: Abound, Fields, Gardens |
Dictionary Links: Abound |
All Gilbert White Quotations: Bats drink on the wing, like... General Howe turned out some German... Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens... I want to be better informed... I was much entertained last summer... It is, I find, in zoology... Numbers of snipes breed every summer... The French, I think, in general... The parish I live in is... The parish of Selborne, by taking... Though large herds of deer do... We have had a very severe... You may depend on it that... |
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