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All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers; for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's.

— Donald C. Peattie

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When a naturalist is thoroughly comfortable and settled, it is time to uproot him.

Flowering Earth (1939)

The fungi are the underworld of plant life, that lives clandestinely, by its unconscious wits, taking to cover in unfavorable times, rioting at another.

Flowering Earth (1939)

Species is but the ideal form; within this idea, within each species, is a diversity of individuality to make the stars look monotonous.

Flowering Earth (1939)

As plantsmen we are interested in the moment when the first plant began. For there was raised the flag of life.

Flowering Earth (1939)

Futile for science to try to discover what the forces of Nature are; it can only discover how they operate.

An Almanac for Moderns (1935)

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