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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...
...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...
...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...