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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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Must the interest of life wane for us all as the progress of knowledge curtails the playground of imagination? No doubt it must in some measure, but there is another cause.
I believe that in these days we have too many occupations, too many interests; we know too many things, and, if you will, have too many advantages and facilities. Our faculty of taking an interest is dissipated and frittered away.
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― A Naturalist On The Prowl
― A Naturalist On The Prowl
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