Quotes 61 till 70 of 70.
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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
Lew Wallace
American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of (1827 - 1905) -
Where there is no power... there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing... the power to do it is strong.
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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