 | John Arthur Thomson - 1917 - 504 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... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1922 - 464 pages
...would fare ill without them. How well Gilbert White (1777) appreciated their importance! 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 proceed... | |
 | Alonzo Lafayette Baker, Francis David Nichol - 1926 - 184 pages
...definitely establishing the truth of the statement made in 1777 by Gilbert White, that "earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost would make a lamentable chasm." " Among a series of illustrations of the web of life, cited by Dr.... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 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... | |
 | Donald Worster - 1994 - 528 pages
...minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost would make a lamentable chasm. The earthworms, White continued, are a food supply for diverse species... | |
 | J. Odera Oruka - 1996 - 386 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.'11 The implication of White's observation is that we must be careful... | |
 | Daniel Ray White - 1998 - 282 pages
...minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost would make a lamentable chasm. (White, 174-175; quoted in Worster, 7-8) Thus in the ecological vision,... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 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... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 612 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.9 This is Gilbert White in Selborne. from where it is a short step to... | |
 | Clive A. Edwards - 2004 - 458 pages
...mechanisms by which earthworms affect plant growth. White (1789) wrote: Dear Sir — ... Earthworms, 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... | |
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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. 
