Noted Naturalists

Arthur Adams – Author of Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria (1870)

David Attenborough – Creator of the BBC TV Series, Life on Earth (1979), Quote:  “I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.”

John James Audubon – Author of Birds of America (1827 – 1838),  Quote:  “A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”

 John Burroughs – Author of Ways of Nature (1905), Quote:  “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

Rachel Carson – Author of Silent Spring (1962), Quote: “Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.”

John Chapman (aka Johnny Appleseed) Book by Howard Means, “Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story (2012), Quote: “Have you planted any apple trees yet?”

Frances Hamerstrom – Author of My Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist (1994), Once had to sneak out of the family mansion at night to visit the marsh frogs…

Steve Irwin – Creator of the TV Series, The Crocodile Hunter (1996 – 2006), Quote: “I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it’s something that I can’t help.”

Aldo Leopold – Author of A Sand County Almanac (1986) Quote: “One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.”

John Muir – Author of The Yosemite (1912), Quote: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

Pliny the Elder – Author of Natural History (AD 77 -79), Quote: “Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.”

Theodore Roosevelt – Author of Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (1913) Quote: “There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children’s children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.”