Gilbert White Quotes

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

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

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

The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of much more consequence, and have much more influence in the economy of nature, than the incurious are aware of; and are mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity. - Gilbert White

The message of the study is water for the future. What we are suggesting is water protection for our children and grandchildren. - Gilbert White

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

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

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