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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.

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

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

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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.

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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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