 | Louis Filler - 1980 - Страниц: 208
...great passage which contemplates "a tangled bank, clothed with many plants... with birds singing... with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth..." (p.286). Hanks wishes he had been able to sit and write, as Darwin had, "some work of penetration and... | |
 | Frank Shu - 1982 - Страниц: 610
...insight. Perhaps Darwin himself expressed it best in the closing passage of his Origin of Species: "It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,...bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with many worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms,... | |
 | Edwin Mellen Press - 1991 - Страниц: 204
...to the whole. The Origin of Species concludes as follows: It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with...damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructured forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner,... | |
 | Steven C. Rockefeller, John C. Elder - 1992 - Страниц: 240
...Whitehead affirms within the religious traditions of the West : It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with...bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms'c raw ling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so... | |
 | Paul A. Johnsgard - 1995 - Страниц: 280
...Charles Darwin unforgettably observed: "It is inreresting to conremplare an entangled bank, clothed with plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes,...through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborarely construcred forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex... | |
 | Dennis P. Doordan - 1996 - Страниц: 292
...familiar, Darwin makes such an inference. After surveying the complex and interdependent organic life of "an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes," and abundant other creatures, Darwin infers the operation of "laws acting around us."12 Earlier, in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1998 - Страниц: 486
...the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, widi birds singing on the bushes, widi various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through... | |
 | A.I. Tauber - 1996 - Страниц: 362
...is. (Beagle Diary 74) Although the word "bank" is not used, this is a scene evocative of the Origin's bank "clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes". Later in Darwin's Beagle Diary account of a quiet moment in Australia, "bank" is used in a parallel... | |
 | David R. Harper, Andrea S. Meyer - 1999 - Страниц: 278
...ON THE ORIGIN OF VIROSES It is interesting to contem late an entangled bank, clothed with many lants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with...flitting about, and with worms crawling through the dam earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and... | |
 | Malcolm Potts, Roger Short - 1999 - Страниц: 372
...Origin of Species with a lyrical description of evolution: It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with...the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and ivith worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms,... | |
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It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth... 
