 | Henry David Thoreau - History - 1881 - 334 pages
...one's teeth slid off with a grating sound in cracking a nut, but not a frog nor a dimple to be seen. Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at nature...head of Medusa. It turns the man of science to stone. I feel that I am dissipated by so many observations. I should be the magnet in the midst of all this... | |
 | William Hamilton Gibson - Natural history - 1890 - 212 pages
...naturalist, to look at Nature directlv, hut onlv with the side of his eye. He must look through and heyond her. To look at her is as fatal as to look at the head of Medusa — t'/ turns the man of Science to stone." THOREAU. PREHISTORIC BOTANISTS AMONG my earliest memories... | |
 | Religion - 1892 - 702 pages
...its beauties, and its poetic inspirations ; only in a minor sense, for its facts. Thoreau says : " Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature...Medusa, — it turns the man of science to stone." Science calls for no ideals, it aims at strictly direct and material issues. Preeminently great human... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 380 pages
...one's teeth slid off with a grating sound in cracking a nut, but not a frog nor a dimple to be seen. Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature...head of Medusa. It turns the man of science to stone. I feel that I am dissipated by so many observations. I should be the magnet in the midst of all this... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 380 pages
...one's teeth slid off with a grating sound in cracking a nut, but not a frog nor a dimple to be seen. Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature...To look at her is as fatal as to look at the head \J of Medusa. It turns the man of science to /stone. I feel that I am dissipated by so many f observations.... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 pages
...transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," and the least of these is the natural philosopher. He says: "Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at...of Medusa. It turns the man of science to stone." It is not looking at Nature that turns the man of science to stone, but looking at his dried and labeled... | |
 | John Burroughs - Literature and science - 1895 - 288 pages
...transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," and the least of these is the natural philosopher. He says: "Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at...of Medusa. It turns the man of science to stone." It is not looking at Nature that turns the man of science to stone, but looking at his dried and labeled... | |
 | John Burroughs - Natural history - 1895 - 290 pages
...transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," and the least of these is the natural philosopher. He says: "Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at...of Medusa. It turns the man of science to stone." It is not looking at Nature that turns the man of science to stone, but looking at his dried and labeled... | |
 | James Lindsay - Literature - 1896 - 238 pages
...Kingsley calls our " greatest naturalistic poet," for several centuries — the words of Thoreau, — " Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature...Medusa, — it turns the man of science to stone." The truth remains that the poet was yet touched overmuch with the merely scientific way of viewing... | |
 | John Coleman Adams - Illustrators - 1901 - 356 pages
...the rapt philosopher of Walden " : "Man cannot afford to be a naturalist and look at nature directly. He must look through and beyond her. To look at her...of Medusa. It turns the man of science to stone." How thoroughly he grasped the spirit of the " new botany" which traces the links between the animal... | |
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Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her. To look at her is as fatal as to look at the head of Medusa. It turns the man of science to stone. 
