Plants and animals, though they deserve all kindness, all admiration, deserve no courtesy - at least in this respect. For they are, one and all, wherever you find them, vagrants and landlopers, intruders and conquerors, who have got where they happen to be simply by the law of the strongest - generally not without a little robbery and murder.


Scientific Essays and Lectures, On Bio-Geology (p. 4)


Plants and animals, though they deserve all kindness, all admiration, deserve no courtesy - at least in this respect. For they are, one and all,...

Plants and animals, though they deserve all kindness, all admiration, deserve no courtesy - at least in this respect. For they are, one and all,...

Plants and animals, though they deserve all kindness, all admiration, deserve no courtesy - at least in this respect. For they are, one and all,...

Plants and animals, though they deserve all kindness, all admiration, deserve no courtesy - at least in this respect. For they are, one and all,...