Associations to the word «Naturalist»

Wiktionary

NATURALIST, noun. (dated) A person committed to studying nature or natural history.
NATURALIST, noun. (philosophy) A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.

Dictionary definition

NATURALIST, noun. An advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms.
NATURALIST, noun. A biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology).

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley