Sentences with phrase «observers of living animals»

He was forever extolling the hunters and field - observers of living animals» habits, and keeping up a fire of invective against the «closet - naturalists,» as he called them, the collectors and classifiers, and handlers of skeletons and skins.

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Of course the sequencing is not quite right, because the poem was written / inspired (take your pick) before science did its work.But the intuitive observer could see a clear evolution form plants to animals to human life, with continuities and differentiations.