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The ocean and its contents do not yield to easy measurement; the final data lie beyond our present grasp; an educated guess is now the best that men of science try to make.

Victor Blanchard Scheffer

Nature having hit upon certain practical blueprints for building an animal, uses them over and over again. Nature is parsimonious.

Victor Blanchard Scheffer

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

Victor Blanchard Scheffer

If a tree mouse did not exist and I were told to design one, I could hardly improve on Nature's product - a small, sure-footed beast dressed in the protective colors of fir-tree cones, adapted to a resinous diet, and adapted to moving about in a narrow ecological niche.

Victor Blanchard Scheffer

Victor Blanchard Scheffer

Victor Blanchard Scheffer

Born: November 27, 1906

Died: September 20, 2011 (aged 104)

Bio: Victor Blanchard Scheffer was an American biologist and the author of eleven books relating to natural history. He was born in Manhattan, Kansas and moved to Washington state at a young age. His father, Theophilus H.

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