“There is always a new page to be turned in natural history, if one is sufficiently on the alert.”
- Source
- Pepacton
- Date
- 1881
Meaning of “There is always a new page to be…”
Close observation keeps natural history open-ended because alert attention can reveal behavior and relationships that familiar surroundings had previously concealed.
Where does it come from?
Pepacton, natural-history essay; Project Gutenberg #7441. Burroughs immediately illustrates the claim with an unexpected observation of eagles and later repeats the naturalist’s maxim “Watch and wait.”