Henry Walter Bates Quotes

Henry Walter Bates Biography

Nationality: English
Type: Environmentalist

Born: February 8, 1825
Death: February 16, 1892

Henry Walter Bates Quotes #1

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

Tags: Friendship , Hard, Together

Henry Walter Bates Quotes #2

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

Tags: Great , Quite, Flowers

Henry Walter Bates Quotes #3

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

Henry Walter Bates

Tags: Anger , Poor, Trouble

Henry Walter Bates Quotes #4

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

Tags: Victory, American, English

Henry Walter Bates Quotes #5

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

Tags: Life , Time , Best ,

Henry Walter Bates Quotes #6

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

Tags: Time , Enough, Whole

Henry Walter Bates Quotes #7

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

Tags: Friendly, Give, Almost

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