"In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found."

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Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1853). “A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley”, p.83, London : Reeve and Company

Alfred Russel Wallace

#Animal Quotes #Details Quotes #Adaptation Quotes

“The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.”
“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.”
“I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.”
“The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to somebody else. I can't anticipate what it's going to be or how it's going to be perceived, so the quicker I let go of something Â I make, the better.”
“I like shitty strip clubs. They look like what they are. I know what to expect. Unlike Congress, at least we know everybody is for sale.”
“There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“Big, undreamed-of things â€” the people on the edge see them first.”
“It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance...”

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