 | Sharon E. Kingsland - Science - 1995 - 326 pages
...and open to our view. Closing On the Origin of Species, he wrote: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - Science - 1995 - 318 pages
...really look like a noble tree. It looks more like a tangled bank: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - Science - 1995 - 318 pages
...really look like a noble tree. It looks more like a tangled bank: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | Dennis P. Doordan - Design - 1996 - 292 pages
...familiar, Darwin makes such an inference. After surveying the complex and interdependent organic life of "an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes," and abundant other creatures, Darwin infers the operation of "laws acting around us."12... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Reference - 1996 - 382 pages
...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | A.I. Tauber - Philosophy - 1996 - 362 pages
...as an invitation to contemplate and then to enter a natural scene: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | Peter W. Price - Science - 1997 - 892 pages
...the end of The origin of species Darwin (1859, pp. 489-490) wrote: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | P. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall - History - 1997 - 336 pages
...more abundantly. In the last paragraph of the Origin, he reflects: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | Barton Childs - Medical - 2003 - 352 pages
...ways they could not have anticipated. 13 Homeostatic Interactions It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse - Medical - 1999 - 348 pages
...evil; and in Miltonic cadences, Darwin draws the explicit lesson: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
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It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed... 
