Top 11 Naturalist Quotes

In this post, you will find great Naturalist Quotes from famous people, such as Jane Goodall, Gore Vidal, Richard Owen, Greg Graffin, Matt Ridley. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author‘s experience worked out literally.

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

Richard Owen

The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn’t based on fairy tales. It’s based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.

I don’t mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn’t tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better.

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

Matt Ridley

I’m trying to champion the naturalist’s worldview and show it’s not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside – like God, for example.

Phillip E. Johnson

A fossil is so powerful. It’s moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil… not the cross.