 | Mike George - 2004 - 388 pages
...and birds. Feel a renewed sense of respect for all living things. 771 Links in the chain "Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm." GILBERT WHITE (1720-g3) 772 The scarab beetle This insect is known... | |
 | John Glendening - 2007 - 254 pages
...have much more inference in the economy of nature, than the incurious are aware. . . . Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm." He then explains that much life on earth, both vegetable and animal,... | |
 | Diana Donald - 2007 - 402 pages
...have much more influence in the oeconomy of nature, than the incurious are aware of ... Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would 41. Thomas Bewick, A History of British Birds, edition of 1809, vol. I, Land Birds; tailpiece... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 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... | |
 | 1888 - 584 pages
...Darwin by a century in his notice of these creatures, which he introduces by saying, " earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm." In a series of letters to his friends, charmingly written, White gives... | |
 | Maison, N. & Kumar - 1964 - 264 pages
...and 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. For to say nothing of half the birds and some quadrupeds which are almost... | |
 | JOSEPH ROGERSONSS - 1843 - 578 pages
...Their minuteness renders earth-vrorms less an object of attention, but their numbers and fecundity, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, they would make a lamentable cbasm." Even the turnip fly, which haunts the stock farmers' fields, has... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1878 - 740 pages
...an object of attention ; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in appearance n 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... | |
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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. 
