Gilbert White simply observed nature with a sharp eye and wrote about it lovingly.

Gerald Durrell

A man in total harmony with his world

David Attenborough

It shows what a real love of nature will do.

John Constable

In this present year, 1915, at least, it is hard to find a flaw in life he led.

Edward Thomas

Selfishly, I, too, would have plumbed to know you: I could have learned so much

W. H. Auden

From reading White’s Selborne, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become a ornithologist

Charles Darwin

Gilbert White’s book, more than any other, has shaped our everyday view of the relations between humans and nature.

Richard Mabey

A sweet delightful book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He raises his eyes to the horizon and looks and listens.

Virginia Woolf