 When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, on which so much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection that the whole of the...  Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories - Стр. 58авторы: Adam Phillips - 2009 - Страниц: 336Ограниченный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1885 - Страниц: 452
...up new fields of research scarcely dreamt of before: "When we behold the wide turf -covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, on which so much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all its inequalities having been levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection that the whole of the... | |
 | 1885 - Страниц: 900
...nourishment in times of famine. " When we behold a wide, turf -covered expanse," says Mr. Darwin, " we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly leveled by worms. It is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superficial mold over any such... | |
 | 1881 - Страниц: 584
...of the land with a fairly well-defined layer or mantle. When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...slowly levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass, every... | |
 | Young people - 1882 - Страниц: 608
...the land with a fairly well-defined layer or mantle. " When we behold a wide, turf -covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...slowly levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed and will again pass every... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1882 - Страниц: 838
...accidentally uncovered and germinate. "When we behold," says Mr. Darwin, "a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness — on which...slowly levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass, every... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1882 - Страниц: 358
...the blade is as narrow as the apex, or narrower than it. When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...slowly levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass, every... | |
 | 1882 - Страниц: 108
...Fitness of the World. " The Formation of Vegetable Mould. When we behold a wide turf covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...slowly levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass, every... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1882 - Страниц: 304
...tiny workers, due to our builders of the Pacific: — "When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection, that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse, has passed and will again pass, every... | |
 | 1882 - Страниц: 584
...results is what is known as "vegetable mold." He says: "When we behold a wide turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly leveled by worms. It is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superficial mold over any such... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - Страниц: 634
...' When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, on which BO much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the...slowly levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass, every... | |
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