Richard Jefferies

Person · Open Library

Born

6 November 1848

Died

14 August 1887

Works

279

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

29

Total plays

201

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. <a href="https://www.last.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

   · 1977 · cited 61,606x

2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 58,098x

3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

   · 2009 · cited 46,736x

4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

   · 2009 · cited 46,121x

5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,509x

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Quotes

• “Let us get out of these indoor narrow modern days, whose twelve hours somehow have become shortened, into the sunlight and the pure wind. A something that the ancients called divine can be found and felt there still.”
• “[A] watch keeping correct time is no guarantee that the bearer shall not suffer pain. The owner of the watch may be soulless, without mind-fire, a mere creature. No benefit to the heart or to the body accrues from the most accurate mechanism.”
• “There is nothing human in the whole round of nature. All nature, all the universe that we can see, is absolutely indifferent to us, and except to us human life is of no more value than grass. If the entire human race perished at this hour, what difference would it make to the earth? What would the earth care? As much as for the extinct dodo, or for the fate of the elephant now going.”
• “So long as men firmly believe that everything is fixed for them, so long is progress impossible.”
• “The old men say their fathers told them that soon after the fields were left to themselves a change began to be visible.”

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