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Gilbert White
English
Scientist
About the author
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
Gilbert White,
English
Scientist
#History
You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
Gilbert White,
English
Scientist
#May
#Country
#Winter
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,
English
Scientist
#Day
#Deep
#Snow
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,
English
Scientist
#People
#Morals
#Harm
#Injury
#Loss
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
Gilbert White,
English
Scientist
#Country
#Birds
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
Gilbert White,
English
Scientist
#Numbers
#Summer
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,
English
Scientist
#Nature
#Variety
#Zoology
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
Gilbert White,
English
Scientist
#Summer
#Flies
I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.
Gilbert White,
English
Scientist
#Want
Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
Gilbert White,
English
Scientist
#Gardens
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,
English
Scientist
#Time
#Country
#Terror
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gilbert White,
English
Scientist
#Play
#Swallows
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.
Gilbert White,
English
Scientist