Gilbert White
Selborne Common is internationally famous for its association with the eighteenth-century naturalist, Gilbert White.
Read more about this topic: Selborne Common
Famous quotes containing the words gilbert and/or white:
“Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,
If you listen to popular rumour;
From morning to night he’s so joyous and bright,
And he bubbles with wit and good humour!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)