Stephen Jay Gould Quote

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.


Wonderful Life (1989) ch. 1


Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.