Friday, March 23, 2018

 

A True Naturalist

Edward O. Wilson, Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016), p. 25:
One of my mentors when I was an undergraduate at the University of Alabama, the lepidopterist Ralph L. Chermock, once remarked to his students that a true naturalist knows the names of ten thousand species of organisms.



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