Who's your natural world hero?

danthekeeper · #51 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 10:55 PM

Thanks for pointing me to your thread it is comforting to know that he is still remembered he is my inspiration and wish I could be as knowledgeable as he was about the countryside the difference is I will have to learn where as he had a natural affinity with the wild.
He is sorely missed

Hobjob · #52 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 11:14 PM

Attenborough is immense but my vote goes to Charles Darwin

Not only did he do his great work, but he was also an expert on sea urchins and beetles! Neither was he constrained by Victorian attitudes to religion.

fairplay · #53 (**permalink**) 06-01-2010, 11:20 PM

Sadly, I did not move to Suffolk till 1968, otherwise I would have grown up in the era of 'the Peoples Naturalist' - the great Ted Ellis. RIP.

Neil.

Hobjob · #54 (**permalink**) 07-01-2010, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by fairplay

Sadly, I did not move to Suffolk till 1968, otherwise I would have grown up in the era of 'the Peoples Naturalist' - the great Ted Ellis. RIP.

Neil.

He didn't die till c '86 though!
When I moved to Suffolk in '79, I well remember his byeline in the
East Anglian Daily Times - though of course he was Naaarfolk!

Wild-Woman · #55 (**permalink**) 07-01-2010, 02:42 PM

David Attenborough without hesitation. As a child, Gerald Durrell and someone closer to home that has inspired me over the last 4 years and who is a WAB member but if I know him well enough, he would not want me to reveal his name publicly. All I will say that his understanding of the natural world is incredible and is able to convey that enthusiasm for it in the same way as the well known naturalists of today.