 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 էջ
...all the land animals, and that more than half of the flowering plants, are aboriginal productions. It was most striking to be surrounded by new birds,...plains of Patagonia, or the hot dry deserts of northern Chili, vividly brought before my eyes. Why, on these small points of land, which within a late geological... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1890 - 440 էջ
...majority of all the land animals, and more than half of the flowering plants, are aboriginal productions : it was most striking to be surrounded by new birds,...new reptiles, new shells, new insects, new plants ! " Mr. Darwin says this ; he calls all these animals and plants new ; and yet he gives to the whole... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1890 - 440 էջ
...majority of all the land animals, and more than half of the flowering plants, are aboriginal productions: it was most striking to be surrounded by new birds,...new reptiles, new shells, new insects, new plants!" Mr. Darwin says this; he calls all these animals and plants new; and yet he gives to the whole of them... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 564 էջ
...all the land animals, and that more than half of the flowering plants, are aboriginal productions. It was most striking to be surrounded by new birds,...birds, to have the temperate plains of Patagonia, or rather the hot dry deserts of Northern Chile, vividly brought before my eyes. Why, on these small points... | |
 | 1909 - 574 էջ
...all the land animals, and that more than half of the flowering plants, are aboriginal productions. It was most striking to be surrounded by new birds,...birds, to have the temperate plains of Patagonia, or rather the hot dry deserts of Northern Chile, vividly brought before my eyes. Why, on these small points... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1993 - 372 էջ
...of the Galapagos Archipelago from 5 to 600 miles from America— are still of the American type.— "It was most striking to be surrounded by new birds,...details of structure, and even by the tones of voice & plumage of the birds, to have the temperate plains of Patagonia, or the hot, dry deserts of Northern... | |
 | Colin Patterson - 1999 - 182 էջ
...Galapagos, though very peculiar, is clearly related to that of the South American mainland. Darwin wrote 'it was most striking to be surrounded by new birds,...tones of voice and plumage of the birds, to have the ro temperate plains of Patagonia, or the hot dry deserts of Northern Chile, vividly brought before... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2003 - 676 էջ
...all the land animals, and that more than half of the flowering plants, are aboriginal productions. It was most striking to be surrounded by new birds,...birds, to have the temperate plains of Patagonia, or rather the hot dry deserts of Northern Chile, vividly brought before my eyes. Why, on these small points... | |
 | Discovery - 36 էջ
...of the same animals seemed perfectly suited to their varied environments. Was there a connection? /( was most striking to be surrounded by new birds, new...birds, to have the temperate plains of Patagonia, or rather the hot dry deserts of Northern Chile, vividly brought before my eyes. Survival of the Fittest... | |
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It was most striking to be surrounded by new birds, new reptiles, new shells, new insects, new plants, and yet by innumerable trifling details of structure, and even by the tones of voice and plumage of the birds, to have the temperate plains of Patagonia,... 