Title Naturally speaking : a dictionary of quotations on biology, botany, nature and zoology / selected and arranged by Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither ; illustrated by Andrew Slocombe

Published Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 596 pages) : illustrations Contents Accuracy -- Aesthetics -- Amoeba -- Amphibian -- Analogy -- Animal -- Arachnids -- Bacteria -- Bacteriologist -- Beauty -- Biological -- Biologist -- Biology -- Birds -- Book -- Botanist -- Botany -- Bug -- Cell -- Chance -- Chaos -- Characteristics -- Chromosomes -- Classification -- Clone -- Coleopterist -- Collecting -- Conchology -- Conservation -- Consultants -- Creationism -- Crustacean -- Darwinism -- Data -- Death -- Discovery -- Dispersal -- Dissection -- Divergence -- DNA -- Ecology -- Entomology -- Entropy -- Environment -- Error -- Ethics -- Evidence -- Evolution -- Exceptions -- Experience -- Experiment -- Extinction -- Extraterrestrial life -- Fact -- Fibonacci -- Fish -- Flowers -- Foresight -- Fungi -- Gaia -- Garden -- Gene -- Genera -- Genetics -- God -- Heredity -- Herpetologists -- Ichthyologist -- Idea -- Ignorance -- Imagination -- Insect -- Intelligence -- Kingdom -- Knowledge -- Laboratory -- Larva -- Law -- Life -- Man -- Mathematics -- Matter -- Metaphors -- Method -- Microbiology -- Microcosom [i.e. Microcosm] -- Microscope -- Molecular biology -- Molluscs -- Museum -- Mutations -- Myrmecologists Names -- Natural history -- Natural selection -- Naturalist -- Nature -- Observation -- Occam's razor -- Ocean -- Organic -- Organism -- Organization -- Origins -- Ornithology -- Parasite -- Patterns -- Perception -- Photosynthesis -- Plants -- Pollution -- Prayer -- Primordial -- Protein -- Protozoa -- Reproduction -- Reptile -- Research -- Scenery -- Science -- Scientific method -- Scientist -- Seeds -- Sexuality -- Size -- Specialization -- Species -- Structure -- Survival -- Symmetry -- Synonymy -- Synthesis -- System -- Taxonomy -- Teleology -- Terminology -- Time -- Tree -- Truth -- Variation -- Vivisection -- Water -- Wetlands -- Wilderness -- Wildlife -- Worms -- Zoo -- Zoology Summary This informative and entertaining work gathers together quotations from the natural world and the life sciences. Several hundred scientists, writers, philosophers and poets, past and present, offer their wisdom Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Biology -- Quotations, maxims, etc Botany -- Quotations, maxims, etc Zoology -- Quotations, maxims, etc Nature -- Quotations, maxims, etc NATURE -- Essays. NATURE -- Reference. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism. Biology Botany Nature Zoology Genre/Form Quotations Form Electronic book Author Gaither, Carl C., 1944- Cavazos-Gaither, Alma E., 1955- Slocombe, Andrew ISBN 9781420033885 1420033883 9780750306812 0750306815

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