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Anna Botsford Comstock Quotes

1854–1930 United States

Anna Botsford Comstock (September 1, 1854 – August 24, 1930) was an American naturalist, author, illustrator, wood-engraver, editor, and Cornell University’s first female professor. She was elected in 1925 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was posthumously inducted in 1988 into the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Hall of Fame.

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A real naturalist is never contented with maps of places and pictures of things, but always desires to see the places and things themselves.

Perhaps half the falsehood in the world is due to lack of power to detect the truth and to express it. Nature-study aids both in discernment and in expression of things as they are.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anna Botsford Comstock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.