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Naturally speaking : a dictionary of quotations on biology, botany, nature and zoology / selected and arranged by Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither ; illustrated by Andrew Slocombe.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Gaither, Carl C., 1944-
Cavazos-Gaither, Alma E., 1955-
Slocombe, Andrew.
ProQuest ebook central.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Biology--Quotations, maxims, etc.
Biology.
Botany--Quotations, maxims, etc.
Botany.
Zoology--Quotations, maxims, etc.
Zoology.
Nature--Quotations, maxims, etc.
Nature.
Genre:
Dictionaries.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiv, 596 pages) : illustrations
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics, [2001]
System Details:
text file
Summary:
Naturally Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Biology, Botany, Nature and Zoology, Second Edition presents the largest compilation of published quotations on the natural world available so that readers can get a feel for the depth and breadth of natural history and the life sciences. The book contains the words and wisdom of several hundred scientists, writers, philosophers, poets, and academicians. The bibliography is useful for readers who want to search for more details about the quotations listed while the extensive author and subject indexes provide the perfect tool for locating quotations.
Contents:
Accuracy
Aesthetics
Amoeba
Amphibian
Analogy
Animal
Arachnids
Bacteria
Bacteriologist
Beauty
Biological
Biologist
Biology
Birds
Book
Botanist
Botany
Bug
Cell
Chance
Chaos
Characteristics
Chromosomes
Classification
Clone
Coleopterist
Collecting
Conchology
Conservation
Consultants
Creationism
Crustacean
Darwinism
Data
Death
Discovery
Dispersal
Dissection
Divergence
DNA
Ecology
Entomology
Entropy
Environment
Error
Ethics
Evidence
Evolution
Exceptions
Experience
Experiment
Extinction
Extraterrestrial life
Fact
Fibonacci
Fish
Flowers
Foresight
Fungi
Gaia
Garden
Gene
Genera
Genetics
God
Heredity
Herpetologists
Ichthyologist
Idea
Ignorance
Imagination
Insect
Intelligence
Kingdom
Knowledge
Laboratory
Larva
Law
Life
Man
Mathematics
Matter
Metaphors
Method
Microbiology
Microcosom [i.e. Microcosm]
Microscope
Molecular biology
Molluscs
Museum
Mutations
Myrmecologists.
Names
Natural history
Natural selection
Naturalist
Nature
Observation
Occam's razor
Ocean
Organic
Organism
Organization
Origins
Ornithology
Parasite
Patterns
Perception
Photosynthesis
Plants
Pollution
Prayer
Primordial
Protein
Protozoa
Reproduction
Reptile
Research
Scenery
Science
Scientific method
Scientist
Seeds
Sexuality
Size
Specialization
Species
Structure
Survival
Symmetry
Synonymy
Synthesis
System
Taxonomy
Teleology
Terminology
Time
Tree
Truth
Variation
Vivisection
Water
Wetlands
Wilderness
Wildlife
Worms
Zoo
Zoology.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Naturally speaking.
ISBN:
9781420033885
1420033883
9780750306812
0750306815
Publisher Number:
99990106766
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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