Henry Walter Bates Quotes

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• ... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes…
• I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and…
• Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form…
• Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened…
• It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the…
• The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
• I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of…
• The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most…
• The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were…
• The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French,…
• They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they…
• Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form…

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