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Quotes by Naturalist
"The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea."
7
"The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web."
6
"For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm."
5
"But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers."
5
"Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals."
4
"In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation."
4
"Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions."
4
"My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect."
4
"Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development."
4
"How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers."
3
"Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more."
3
"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves."
3
"Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life."
3
"The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area."
3
"Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow."
3
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