 The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of much more consequence, and have much more influence in the economy of Nature, than the incurious are aware of; and are mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object...  The Quarterly Journal of Science - Page 1571867Full view - About this book
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 304 pages
...frequent inundations are always poor ; and probably the reason may be because the worms are drowned. The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of...more consequence, and have much more influence in the oeconomy of nature, than the incurious are aware of; and are mighty in their effect, from their minuteness,... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1908 - 280 pages
...most of the fertile soil of the world, verified in detail what Gilbert White had foreseen in 1777: "The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of...economy of nature than the incurious are aware of. ... Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost,... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1910 - 410 pages
...instance being the work of earthworms. In 1777 Gilbert White got at the very root of the matter. " The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of...economy of nature than the incurious are aware of. ... Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost,... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1911 - 280 pages
...earti> worms. In 1777 Gilbert White got at the very root of the matter. " The most insignifican. 1 insects and reptiles are of much more consequence...economy, of nature than the incurious are aware of. . . . Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if,... | |
 | Charles Gordon Hewitt - 1912 - 148 pages
...are made increasingly conscious of the truth of Gilbert White's sage words written in 1777, that : ' The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of...economy of nature than the incurious are aware of.' CHAPTER II THE STRUCTURE OF THE FLY In order to understand how a fly lives, moves and has its being... | |
 | Charles Aubrey Ealand - 1916 - 280 pages
...birds, or into the tissues of plants." Gilbert White said, nearly a century and a half ago, that " the most insignificant insects and reptiles are of...economy of nature than the incurious are aware of." Nevertheless, the fact remains that comparatively little is known about our commonest and our most... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1917 - 504 pages
...especially noted, must not be overlooked. In 1777, Gilbert White wrote thus of the earthworms — • " The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of...economy of nature than the incurious are aware of. ... Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature yet, if lost,... | |
 | 1921 - 560 pages
...instance being the work of earthworms. In 1777 Gilbert White got at the very root of the matter. " The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of much mor.e consequence and have more influence in the economy of nature than the incurious are aware of Earthworms, though in appearance... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pages
...frequent inundations are always poor; and probably the reason may be because the worms are drowned. The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of...of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost,... | |
 | Donald Worster - 1994 - 528 pages
...planning was to make each kind of being important to the stable operation of the Selborne microcosm. The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of...of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost would... | |
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