 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1922 - 788 pages
...Voyage in the Beagle, Darwin remarks : When quietly walking along the shady pathways [at Bahla, Brazil], and admiring each successive view I wished to find language to express ray ideas. Epithet after epithet was found too weak to convey to those who have not visited the Intertroplcal... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Fiction - 1984 - 508 pages
...tinged of a red, purple, or yellow colour, add most to the beauties of the scenery of those climes. When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and admiring each successive view, one wishes to find language to express one's ideas. Epithet after epithet is found too weak to convey... | |
 | Daniel P. Todes - Science - 1989 - 242 pages
...declining sun, tinged of a red, purple, or bright yellow colour, add most to the beauties of those climes. When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and...who have not visited the intertropical regions, the sense of delight which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hothouse fail to communicate... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1989 - 452 pages
...tinged of a red, purple, or yellow colour, add most to the beauties of the scenery of those climes. When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and admiring each successive view, one wishes to find language to express one's ideas. Epithet after epithet is found too weak to convey... | |
 | M. Timothy O'Keefe - Nature - 1996 - 364 pages
...Beagle, they seem equally appropriate for characterizing the subtropical and tropical regions of Florida: "Epithet after epithet was found too weak to convey...experiences .... The land is one great wild, untidy hothouse, made by nature for herself." Florida typically receives a large amount of rain: 50 to 65... | |
 | John C. Kricher - Nature - 1997 - 506 pages
...impressions, are striking. Charles Darwin (1839) wrote of his initial impressions of tropical rainforest: "In tropical forests, when quietly walking along the...sensation of delight which the mind experiences." Field Trip to a Peruvian Rainforest Imagine we are standing at the edge of a tropical rainforest near... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 500 pages
...tinged of a red, purple, or bright yellow colour, add most to the beauties of those climes. When quiedy walking along the shady pathways, and admiring each...the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hothouse fail to communicate a just idea of the vegetation, yet I... | |
 | Joseph Franke - Sports & Recreation - 1999 - 252 pages
...appreciate the trouble that even the likes of Charles Darwin had in adequately describing it when he wrote: "Epithet after epithet was found too weak to convey...sensation of delight which the mind experiences." Consider that tropical forests cover less than 7 percent of the earth's land surface, but contain more... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1894 - 1230 pages
...the scenery of Bahia. I cannot do better than take an extract from Darwin's "Voyage of a Naturalist": "When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and...the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. " I have said that the plants in a hothouse fail to communicate a just idea of the vegetation, yet... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1882 - 720 pages
...passage may be quoted as an illustration : it is from the description of Bahia in Chapter xxi. : — " When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and...the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hothouse fail to communicate a just idea of the vegetation, yet I... | |
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When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and admiring each successive view, I wished to find language to express my ideas. Epithet after epithet was found too weak to convey to those who have not visited the intertropical regions, the sensation... 
