Alfred Russel Wallace Quote

The luxuriance and beauty of Tropical Nature is a well-worn theme, and there is little new to say about it. The traveler and the naturalist have combined to praise, and not unfrequently to exaggerate the charms of tropical life - its heat and light, its superb vegetable forms, its brilliant tints of flower and bird and insect.


Tropical Nature, and Other Essays, Preface (p. vii), Macmillan & Company Ltd. 1878


The luxuriance and beauty of Tropical Nature is a well-worn theme, and there is little new to say about it. The traveler and the naturalist have...

The luxuriance and beauty of Tropical Nature is a well-worn theme, and there is little new to say about it. The traveler and the naturalist have...

The luxuriance and beauty of Tropical Nature is a well-worn theme, and there is little new to say about it. The traveler and the naturalist have...

The luxuriance and beauty of Tropical Nature is a well-worn theme, and there is little new to say about it. The traveler and the naturalist have...