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Wiliam Henry Hudson
(4 Aug 1841 - 18 Aug 1922)
English author
naturalist and ornithologist. His interest in nature started in his
youth when he studied the local flora and fauna in Argentina (where he was born).
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“Hudson
is at his best about the greatest living English stylist ... Besides
this he is the finest living observer, and the greatest living lover of
bird and animal life, and of Nature in her moods.”
— John Galsworthy
to A.A. Knopf, 4 Jan 1915
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) --