The willing horse is always overworked.
CHARLES DARWINNothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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