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.
About Gilbert White
Gilbert Whitewas a “parson-naturalist”, a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.
More quotes from Gilbert White
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person’s hand.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
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.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
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.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
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.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
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.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.
18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)