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Natural History
Natural history is the research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as possible — and, in friendly competition, to try to find more of them than the next birder. We became a community of birders, with the complications that human societies always have; and although it was the birds that had brought us together, our story became a human story after all.
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― Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
― Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
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In the 1940s and 1950s, the study of natural history--an intimate science predicated on the time-consuming collection and naming of life-forms--gave way to microbiology, theoretical and commercial. Much the same thing happened to the conservation movement, which shifted from local preservationists with soil on their shoes to environmental lawyers in Washington, D.C.
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― Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
― Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
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