Naturalists Unknown: Lives marked by discovery and erasure

[Petiver]

https://theamericanscholar.org/naturalists-unknown/

[TRiG_Ireland]

As George Elliot wrote in Middlemarch,

> The effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

I find that thought rather comforting, in a way.

[bayouborne → TRiG_Ireland]

This is a wonderful quote. thank you.

[WarOnPrivacy]

My rural FL county has a few nudist colonies; the residents call themselves naturalists. After 3 decades here, that meaning queues first in my head.