What Is a Naturalist?

Museums, also known as all things.

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As long as you open the history of natural science, the names of countless naturalists are glittering: from Aristotle in ancient Greece,

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Pliny, author of Natural History, Darwin and Wallace, founders of evolution, Fabre, author of Insect, Jenny Goodall, a chimpanzee expert who has lectured in China many times, and the greatest current museum The scientist Wilson, his "Ant" has won the Pulitzer Prize, the Chinese scientist and popular science writer Thoreau, Leopold, Carson and so on.

China also has an excellent and well-developed tradition of museums, such as the well-known Taoist Yuan, Shen Kuo, and Xu Xiake, as well as the modern Zhu Kezhen, all of whom are naturalists. Natural science from the doorstep of home China's current elementary, middle school, and university education does not provide enough natural science theory and practice. Many graduate students do not distinguish between grains, and they may confuse the names of plant animals, but when they are practical, they will be named. Not true with "real". This is a long way from the "quality education" we advocate. Therefore, we now need to inherit some aspects of traditional natural sciences, remove individual elements of hunting, possession, and plundering, fully consider the needs of contemporary society to emphasize the harmonious development of man and nature, and call for a "new natural science" to pursue human and Natural integration requires human emotion to penetrate and establish a new dialogue between man and nature. For the general public: the "threshold" of natural history is very low, and even there is no threshold, everyone can try it. Understand, use, and participate in science. It is a science accessible to everyone. It is a kind of "local knowledge" that can start from your home, community, street, school, park, field, and other familiar environments. Knowing the surrounding plants, animals, minerals, etc., everyone can practice, everyone can contact, everyone can contribute, everyone can ask questions, and everyone can be a scientist. Observing plants is simple and interesting. Natural science is a kind of practical knowledge. It can't just stay on the verbal and paper surface, you must try it yourself.