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

Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

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.