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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... "
Bericht über die Fortschritte der Anatomie und Physiologie - Page 159
1862
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Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus

David R. Harper, Andrea S. Meyer - Medical - 1999 - 278 pages
...interesting to contem late an entangled bank, clothed with many lants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the dam earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and...
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Victorian Prose: An Anthology

Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 502 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,...
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Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy - Fiction - 1999 - 524 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,...
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Harriers of the World: Their Behaviour and Ecology

Robert E. Simmons - Science - 2000 - 388 pages
...forces that shape and continue to shape the species that live there: 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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Symbiosis: An Introduction to Biological Associations

Surindar Paracer, Vernon Ahmadjian - Science - 2000 - 304 pages
...this view of life." In The Origin of Species (1859), Darwin 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,...
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Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos

Roger Lewin - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1999 - 276 pages
...interconnectedness of ecological communities in a famous passage: "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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Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories

Adam Phillips - Psychology - 2009 - 162 pages
...and that he returns to in the famous last paragraph of the Origin: 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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Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin

Robert Faggen - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 380 pages
...various creatures are pursuing their interests in an "entangled bank": It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and...
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God and Evolution: Creation, Evolution and the Bible

R. J. Berry - Religion - 2001 - 196 pages
...have another word. In the last paragraph of the Origin 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,...
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The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays

Kim Sterelny - Philosophy - 2001 - 332 pages
...the relationship between ecological processes and evolutionary change. Darwin invites us to consider 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 in the damp earth, and...
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