Gilbert White

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district. ”

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. ”

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined. ”

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops. ”

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. ”