Milne, Lorus and Margery
Lorus J. Milne attended the University of Toronto, recieved his Ph.D. at Harvard, and taught zoology at the University of New Hampshire. Margery Milne obtained her Ph.D. at at Radcliff. They have co-authored numerous natural history articles in periodicals and written a number of other books including: Famous Naturalists; The Biotic World and Man, andThe Mating Instinct.
Darkness is full of sounds. The World of Night, 1956.Desert is dry but not deserted. Ibid.
When fog rolls in and the shore line shortens to a yard or two in each direction, darkness becomes almost as perfect as in a cave. An ocean transforms into a disembodied sound, like a giant heart pulsing slowly. Ibid.
The future of life on earth depends upon small specifics and not on approximations, upon details and not generalities. Ecology Out of Joint, 1977.
It is the particular tree rather than the great forest or the individual grass plant rather than the prairie that carries the genetic heritage concealed within. Ibid.
Had Charles Darwin read Mendel's paper (this lack of communication could not happen today, for the network among scientists is too efficient), he would have seen that nature had indeed made provision for the large numbers of variations within a species that his theory of natural selection called for, but for which he could not adequately account. Ibid.
Long after an event, it may be possible to list the consequences. Harvard University's eminent bacteriologist Hans Zinsser offered his own compilation while arguing that the microscopic agents of cholera and typhus had influenced human history more than all the kings and military men combined. Ibid.
When you sit by a pond or a slowly winding stream, the city's impatient tempo drains away, and from the corners of the mind, thoughts come out and sun themselves. A Multitude of Living Things, 1945, 1946, 1947.
Pollen, wind and water film combine to make a fossil trail of bygone trees and herbs. Ibid.