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" It is interesting to contemplate a tangled 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... "
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or The Preservation ... - Page 423
by Charles Darwin - 1870 - 440 pages
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Geology in Its Relation to Landscape

Junius Henderson - 1925 - 240 pages
...earth !" . >..-•&. -~ The Reign of Law "It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us." CHARLES DARWIN....
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The New Age of Faith

John Langdon-Davies - 1925 - 262 pages
...interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws,...
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From Myth to Reason: The Story of the March of Mind in the Interpretation of ...

Woodbridge Riley - 1926 - 376 pages
...this final passage in the Origin of Species: It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws,...
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The Need for Eugenic Reform

Leonard Darwin - 1926 - 564 pages
...spreading a belief in the animal origin of man : It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect on these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other...
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The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change

Vaclav Smil - 2003 - 362 pages
...surface. Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, Biosfera It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...forms, so different from each other and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. Charles Darwin,...
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The Nature of Diversity: An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery

Daniel R. Brooks, Deborah A. McLennan - 2002 - 682 pages
...Coevolution: Exploring Personal Relationships It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. Darwin 1872:459...
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Chaim Perelman

Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - 2003 - 186 pages
...summarizing Darwin's views of evolution: It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with the many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws,...
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The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James, and Edith Wharton

Jill M. Kress - 2002 - 290 pages
...clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bush6 The Figure of Consciousness es, with various insects flitting about, and with worms...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. This passage...
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In the Casa Azul: A Novel of Revolution and Betrayal

Meaghan Delahunt - 2003 - 322 pages
...on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed . . . These elaborately constructed forms, so different...manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. The laws of nature. He was enthralled by Darwin's understanding of the peacock feathers: a vision of...
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Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices

John Law, Annemarie Mol - 2002 - 308 pages
...pages of the Origin of Species reads, "It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth . . . , dependent on each other in so complex a manner."11 Darwin continues to argue that from the...
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