A museum of natural history is a museum with exhibits about natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology. Some museums feature natural-history collections in addition to other collections, such as ones related to history, art and science. Nature centers often include natural-history exhibits too.
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“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar)
“May she be granted beauty and yet not
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Being made beautiful overmuch,
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Lose natural kindness”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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