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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…
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I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the…
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Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no…
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It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical…
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The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of…
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The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one…
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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill…
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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except…
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard…
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Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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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…
— Henry Walter Bates
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth…
— E. O. Wilson
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The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
— Vera Nazarian
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In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection)…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this…
— Hippocrates
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Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.
— Nam June Paik
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I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in…
— August Kleinzahler
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Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The…
— Lewis Thomas
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I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are…
— Paul Stamets
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Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side.…
— Andrew Vachss
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