Charles Darwin Quote

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.


volume I, chapter IX: "Life at Down", page 385; letter to William Darwin Fox (24 October 1852) - The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)


I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.