Gilbert White
Selborne Common is internationally famous for its association with the eighteenth-century naturalist, Gilbert White.
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“If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
I’m a genuine philanthropist—all other kinds are sham.
Each little fault of temper and each social defect
In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
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