Quotes by Henry Walter Bates - Page 1

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Anger
Display
Monkeys
Poor
Quiet
Trouble
Ground
Monkey
Quietly
Seated
Seemed
Sore
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I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Nature
Heart
Lasts
Mind
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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Anarchy
Cities
People
Residents
Slaughter
Victory
Coloured
French
Elated
Except
Proclaimed
Province
Whites
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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Friendly
Giving
Ill
Manners
People
Provinces
Reputation
Southern
Unknown
Peaceable
Simpler
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The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Science
Butterfly
Important
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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Alligators
Animal
Common
Forests
Poisonous
Residence
Accident
Animals
Besides
Fatal
Feared
Forest
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Friendship
Favourite
Fruit
Meals
Possession
Animals
Disputed
Test
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It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Companion
Country
Eleven
First Time
Land
Tropical
Years
Life Time Best
Beauties
Life Best Time
Examine
Gazed
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Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Funny
Inspirational
Flower
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Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Attractive
Elegant
Flight
Numbers
Sailing
Scarcity
Showy
Colours
Feature
Forest
Mode
Slow
Shape
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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Book
Ill Health
Rivers
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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.
Henry Walter Bates / Naturalist
Nature
Butterfly
Writing
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