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Read & copy the quotation
“"Watch and wait" is the naturalist's sign.”
- Source
- Pepacton
- Date
- 1881
Meaning of “"Watch and wait" is the naturalist's sign.”
Patient observation is presented as a working method: discovery often requires remaining attentive long enough for elusive natural behavior to become visible.
Where does it come from?
Pepacton. Burroughs writes “Watch and wait” after describing an observation that corrected a gap in his own natural-history knowledge; the phrase is practical field-observation advice in literary natural history.
