William Patten (zoologist) Quote

The barriers within which life resides are not impregnable. In its traffic with nature, life is free to look beyond its tenement walls; free to receive directive agencies from afar, and thereby free to enlarge its heritage. By this universal attribute of profitable exchange, life grows in volume and complexity.


The Grand Strategy of Evolution: The Social Philosophy of a Biologist, Chapter IV (p. 89), Richard G. Badger. 1920


The barriers within which life resides are not impregnable. In its traffic with nature, life is free to look beyond its tenement walls; free to...

The barriers within which life resides are not impregnable. In its traffic with nature, life is free to look beyond its tenement walls; free to...

The barriers within which life resides are not impregnable. In its traffic with nature, life is free to look beyond its tenement walls; free to...

The barriers within which life resides are not impregnable. In its traffic with nature, life is free to look beyond its tenement walls; free to...