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...this rummaging through the past turned up some engaging anecdotes. Naturalist Thomas Jefferson, for example, had reached the end of his wits in a debate with that skeptical Frenchman Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who did not believe that such a thing as a moose existed. To prove the point, Jefferson, a pragmatic scientist, had a full-grown American moose shipped from New Hampshire to Buffon with his compliments-unique evidence, from the new nation, of a new world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 26, 1976 | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...naturalist recognizes that the bay, its crabs and its watermen's way of life are endangered species. Warner does not attempt to change the situation by preaching. His text performs a far better service. In its unsentimental way, it evokes Shakespeare's phrase: "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Callinectes sapidus and Homo sapiens may seem a world apart. Beautiful Swimmers shows how minuscule that world is-and how interrelated its in habitants have become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Crabs and Men | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Robert C. Gormley, | Title: Glass Flowers to Show in New York | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Arcadian Vision | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

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