 | 1860 - 982 pages
...prey — all striving to increase, and all feeding on each other or on the trees or their seeds and seedlings, or on the other plants which first clothed...ground according to definite laws; but how simple is this problem compared to the action and reaction of the innumerable plants and animals which have determined,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...to increase, and all feeding on each other or on the trees or their seeds and seedlings, or on the plants which first clothed the ground and thus checked...ground according to definite laws ; but how simple is this problem compared to the action and reaction of the innumerable plants and animals which have determined,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...to increase, and all feeding on each other or on the trees or their seeds and seedlings, or on the plants which first clothed the ground and thus checked...ground according to definite laws ; but how simple is this problem compared to the action and reaction of the innumerable plants and animals which have determined,... | |
 | John Watts - 1865 - 206 pages
...striving to increase, all feeding on each other, or on the trees, or on their seed and seedlings, or on other plants which first clothed the ground, and thus checked the growth of trees ! What, then, must have been the continual action and reaction of the innumerable plants and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...each other, or on the trees, their seeds aud seedlings, or on the other plants which first clothed tho ground and thus checked the growth of the trees ! Throw up a handful of feathers, and all fall to the ground according to definite laws ; but how simple is the problem where each shall fall... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1878 - 416 pages
...prey — all striving to increase, and all feeding on each other or on the trees, or their seeds and seedlings, or on the other plants which first clothed...the ground and thus checked the growth of the trees 1 Throw up a handful of feathers, and all must fall to the ground according to definite laws; but how... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1877 - 418 pages
...prey—all striving to increase, and all feeding on each other or on the trees, or their seeds and seedlings, or on the other plants which first clothed the ground and thus cheeked the growth of the trees ! Throw up a handful of feathers, and all must fall to the ground according... | |
 | T Warren O'Neill - 1880 - 482 pages
...feeding on each other, or on the trees, or their seeds and seedlings, or on the other plants \tfhich first clothed the ground, and thus checked the growth of the trees!" What is the obvious outcome of such a condition of affairs ? Is it not, manifestly, degeneration ?... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1882 - 494 pages
...each other, or on the trees, their seeds and seedlings, or on the other plants which first slothed the ground and thus checked the growth of the trees ! Throw up a handful of feathers, and all fall to the ground according to definite laws ; but how simple is the problem where each shall fall... | |
 | John Stahl Patterson - 1883 - 526 pages
...to increase, and all feeding on each other or on the trees or their seeds and seedlings, or on the plants which first clothed the ground and thus checked...ground according to definite laws; but how simple is this problem compared to the action and reaction of the innumerable plants and animals which have determined,... | |
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... each annually scattering its seeds by the thousand ; what war between insect and insect — between insects, snails, and other animals with birds and beasts of prey — all striving to increase... 
