 | ROBERT CHAMBERS - 1892 - 882 pages
...tesselat«d pavements and other antiquities. The use of worms to anglers needs no comment. ' Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. . . . Worms seem to l»e the great promoters of vegetation, which would... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1892 - 398 pages
...have much more influence in the economy of nature than the incurious are aware of. ... Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. . . . Worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 268 pages
...which renders them less an object of attention ; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are... | |
 | 1896 - 844 pages
...tesselated pavements and other antiquities. The use of worms to anglers needs no comment. ' Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. . . . Worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would... | |
 | 1882 - 816 pages
...one of his " Letters" to Earthworms and their use in the economy of nature. " Earthworms," he says, " though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 304 pages
...which renders them less an object of attention ; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are... | |
 | George Goudie Chisholm - 1908 - 808 pages
...referred to occurs in Let. LXXVII (to the Hon. Daines Barring-ton!, where we read : — ' Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For . . . worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation ... by... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1908 - 272 pages
...have much more influence in the economy of nature than the incurious are aware of. ... Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm." What we may call "nutritive chains" connect many forms of life —... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1910 - 410 pages
...have much more influence in the economy of nature than the incurious are aware of. ... Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. . . . Worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would... | |
 | 1910 - 354 pages
...love rich soil and they help to make it. Earthworms, said Gilbert White, though in appearance they are a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. He goes on to show how by perforating and losening the soil, by letting... | |
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Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. 
