In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
CHARLES DARWINThe most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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