...worm book's concluding sentences, with cadences that echo and vary the ending of Origin of Species: When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should...mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly leveled by worms. It is a marvelous relfection [sic] that the whole of the superficial mould over any...

...passes through the worm in preparation for spring. The great naturalist, Darwin, says of the worm : "When we behold a wide, turfcovered expanse, we should...inequalities having been slowly levelled by worms. . . . The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions ; but long before...

...accumulated castings lie dormant until at some future time they are accidentally uncovered and germinate." When we behold a wide turf-covered expanse we should...much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the inequality having been slowly levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection that the whole of the...