...beating part of what Darwin described as the tangled bank. "It is interesting to contemplate in the 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,...

...walks with Emma in the countryside around Down House filled his mind. 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,...

...eloquently returns to the dominant theme of adaptation or design: 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 the next — in a beautiful and oft-quoted terminal 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,...

...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,...

..."An Entangled Bank," or Sibling Development in a Family Ecosystem 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,...

...its general adoption in every field of science to-day : " It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, insects flitting among the flowers, and worms crawling upon the bosom of the great mother earth. It...

...work on ' The Origin of Species ' with the following words : — " 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,...

...wrote it. Here it is, without comment (the italics are our own) : "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,...

...Species, in which Darwin sums up in a sentence his idea of evolution. 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,...