Gilbert White Quotes
"You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter."
- Gilbert White
(Related: Country, May, Winter)
"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
(Related: Day, Deep, Snow)
"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
(Related: People, Harm, Injury, Loss, Morals)
"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
- Gilbert White
(Related: Birds, Country)
"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
- Gilbert White
(Related: Numbers, Summer)
"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
(Related: Nature, Variety, Zoology)
"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
- Gilbert White
(Related: Flies, Summer)
"I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology."
- Gilbert White
(Related: Want)
"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
- Gilbert White
(Related: Gardens)
"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."
- Gilbert White
(Related: Time, Country, Terror)
"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
- Gilbert White
(Related: Play, Swallows)
"The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district."
- Gilbert White