Gilbert White Quotes

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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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 parish.

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• 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.

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

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• I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

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• 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 great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

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

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Birth:	18th July, 1720
Death:	26th June, 1793
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Naturalist, Ornithologist

About

Gilbert White was born in Selborne, Hampshire, England. He was a British naturalist and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. He educated at Oriel College, Oxford. White and William Markwick collected records of the dates of emergence of more than 400 plant and animal species, White recording in Hampshire and Markwick in Sussex between 1768 and 1793. He wrote several books include: A naturalist's calendar, Birds of Selborne, Thirty Years in Tropical Australia, and A Selborne year.

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