William Beebe
Charles William Beebe (1877-07-29 – 1962-06-04) was an American naturalist, explorer, and author.
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- To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.
- Journal (31 December, 1893)
- The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.
- The Bird (1906)
- The isness of things is worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.
- On Agression, Konrad Lorenz (1963)