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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King