THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT 



Figure 7. '"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants 

 of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, with various n:sects ^f "^^ f'^^"^;^;;"^^ J^^^J 

 worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborateh constructed 

 Trms so cHffefent from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a "tanner 

 havT all been produced bv laws acting around us. . . . There ,s a grandeur m this view 

 of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or one^ 

 and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the A-d law-s of gravity frorn 

 so simple a beginning, endless forms most beaut, tul and most wonderful have been, and are 

 being, evolved." —Charles Danvin. 



