Word: naturalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collec tor's item at $750. Brilliantly-plumed birds could be seen on the lawns of ty coons like Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, but to most citizens a pheasant was only a long-tailed wild bird useful for sport and food. Now Naturalist Beebe's definitive work has been re-issued in one volume at $3.50* and pheasant raising has become a fad among rich rural connoisseurs. With only five pairs entered in last year's Poultry Show, a handful of fanciers organized an Ornamental Pheasant Society, set out to advertise their pastime. Chosen president...
...noted (TIME, Nov. 16, Nov. 30) "that though no espouser of Causes, TIME will gladly transmit to Naturalist Burnet Mrs. Schroeder's $50." This appreciation of Australia's native bear, the koala, is creditable alike to Mrs. Schroeder's heart and TIME'S courtesy. American dollars are acceptable in Australia, if received in the form of payment for Australian goods, but may I suggest that the $50 in question be applied to the preservation of American animal and bird life? Australians are not neglecting their koalas...
...eleven years while bearded Chris Jorgensen, a capable, conservative, never exciting painter, covered acres of canvas with views of Yosemite Falls, the Half Dome, El Capitan and the rest of the valley's wonders. The Jorgensens became fast friends of the valley's best-known inhabitant, bearded Naturalist John Muir. In 1903 when Theodore Roosevelt visited the valley he outraged the inhabitants by turning down an elaborate reception to eat flap jacks over a campfire with Naturalist Muir and Painter Jorgensen...
Though no espouser of Causes, TIME will gladly transmit to Naturalist Burnet Mrs. Schroeder...
...that a dictator awakening one morning with a bellyache might throw his country into a war which might never have happened if he had taken a cathartic the night before." As a lad, Webb Miller was inordinately impressed with the works of Henry David Thoreau, found in that gentle naturalist's Walden a blueprint for human peace & happiness. As a man, though he still carries a tattered copy of Walden wherever he goes, Webb Miller rounds off his memoirs by sombrely remarking that "the philosophy of Thoreau ... is impractical as a rule of life. . . . Often I wish I could...