“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.”
Quote by Charles Darwin
Author
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, is renowned as the founder of evolutionary biology. Born on February 12, 1809, in England, he passed away on April 19, 1882. Darwin is best known for his research on the theory of evolution, which proposed that species evolve through natural selection and survival of the fittest. more
You May Also Like
Source: Letters, Conversations and Recollections
“Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.”
Source: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...
“One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.”
Source: Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Europe and elsewhere
Source: Notes on life
“Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.”
Source: Robert Louis Stevenson
Source: Passages from the American Note-Books (Annotated Edition)
Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
Source: The Edgar Cayce Collection: Four Volumes in One