Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added that it would take a person "with the mind of a naturalist, the fingers of an artist and finally, patience," to produce such delicate works today...
...Died. Euell Gibbons, 64, naturalist, connoisseur of wild foods and cookbook author, who in his writings and numerous television appearances campaigned to popularize a natural diet; of an apparent heart attack; in Sunbury, Pa. Gibbons became a hero of natural-food enthusiasts after the publication of his Stalking the Wild Asparagus...
...17th century artist, painted a view of the Sao Francisco River in Bra zil, a lone capybara by a cactus tree took on the ruminative air of a Caspar Da vid Friedrich monk, contemplating the infinite. "What a fabulous and extravagant country we're in!" exclaimed the great naturalist Von Humbolt...
...Corning Museum of Glass. Thirty are being set in wood plaques for a Pennsylvania glass firm, while another went to London with Agassiz's great-great-great grandson. Most of them, of course, simply become treasured mementos of the great age of Cambridge glassmaking, and remainders of a noted naturalist and traditions he fostered at Harvard. They usually end up holding herbs, tea, cookies, tobacco, sea shells, or just sitting in the sun where the light can play through the irregular swirls and patterns in the old glass...
Douglas was reared in poverty by his widowed mother in Yakima, Wash., near the mountains where he would later build his beloved wilderness retreat. A lifelong conservationist, naturalist and enthusiastic hiker-climber, he began challenging mountains as a boy in order to rebuild legs ravaged by polio. After graduating from Whitman College, he hitched a freight to New York City, arriving with 60 in his pocket, then worked his way through Columbia Law School-once writing a text for a law correspondence course in a subject he had yet to take himself...