Word: naturalistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Stuart Mill, in his essay On Liberty, considered eccentricity in a nation's character to be "proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained." Britain has always esteemed such doughty dotties as the 19th century Roman Catholic naturalist, Charles Waterton, who devoted his life to exterminating black rats in England on the ground that they were foreigners smuggled into the country by Hanoverian Protestants. The 1951 Festival of Britain even set aside a section of one pavilion to commemorate oddballs. Britain's contemporary eccentrics manifest more energy than originality, but Britons...
...Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. A naturalist's engaging account of how nature survives in the asphalt jungle...
...Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. A naturalist's engaging account of how nature survives in the asphalt jungle...
...Navy has announced its intention of Liquidating a large colony of albatrosses on Midway Island, allegedly a hazard to aircraft. A public meeting is scheduled on the matter at The American Museum of Natural Science in New York on Tuesday, October 20. One naturalist has already suggested that the admiralty read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" to find out what happens to people who kill albatrosses. No comment has yet been heard from the birds themselves. (New York Times, 10/16/59...
...Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. A naturalist's engaging account of how nature survives in the asphalt jungle...