#rest

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#alligators #besides #certainly #common #during

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#beauties #best #both #companion #country

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#antiques #certain #i #interest #like

Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#best #best interests #call #children #considered

There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away from the rest of us. ↗

— Maria Bello

#always #anxiety #away #character #himself

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#boring #interesting #made #subject #therefore

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#begin #early #father #france #good

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#aptly #combined #description #enrichment #illustrate

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#deserts #education #forests #nature #nothing