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Henry Walter Bates

Henry Walter Bates

English Environmentalist

Born: Feb 8, 1825

Died: Feb 16, 1892

Anger Animals Elated Peaceable People Time

Related authors: Aldo Leopold Bill McKibben David R. Brower John Muir Joseph Wood Krutch Paul Hawken Paul Watson Roberto Burle Marx

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. Henry Walter Bates

Anger Trouble Monkey Seemed Sore Quietly Poor Ground Display Seated

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

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. Henry Walter Bates

People Victory Anarchy City Given Except Coloured French Were Province Up American Proclaimed Elated Whites English Residents Slaughter

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. Henry Walter Bates

People Reputation Manners Unknown Give More Simpler Almost Were Provinces Friendly Southern Which Ill Peaceable

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other. Henry Walter Bates

Friendship Together Fruit Animals Other Took Possession Favourite Never Put Occasions Test Meals Hard Each Disputed

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

Time Animals Accident Enough Besides Feared Only Alligators Poisonous Forest Common Happened Certainly Whole Residence Fatal

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