A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.
Natural history is not about producing fables.
The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing sp...
When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a history; when...
Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the imm...
Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.
Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn