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Charles Darwin@charles-darwin Β· 24 November 1859
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, insects flitting about, and worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
β On the Origin of Species, Chapter XIV (1859)
19th Century