 | 1909 - 852 pagina’s
...first day of his arrival in South America: "The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 564 pagina’s
...BAHIA, OR SAN SALVADOR. BRAZIL, Feb. zyth. — The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1912 - 380 pagina’s
...Nature in a very beautiful way. EDWAKD E. HALE, JR. TRAVELS IN THE AMERICAN TROPICS.» "Delight itself is a. weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 564 pagina’s
..."impressions" recall forcibly those expressed by Darwin in similar terms at the close of his "Journal": "Delight ... is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1925 - 492 pagina’s
...-strangling luxuriance of tropical vegetation. " Delight itself," he writes in his Journal, " delight itself is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who for the first time has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1910 - 936 pagina’s
...first day of his arrival in South America : " The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who for the first time has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1984 - 508 pagina’s
...BAHIA, OR SAN SALVADOR. BRAZIL, FEB. 29TH-Theday has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has been wandering by himself in a Brazilian forest. Among the multitude of striking objects, the general... | |
 | Richard L. Stein - 1988 - 361 pagina’s
...BAHIA, OR SAN SALVADOR, BRAZIL. Feb. 29th.— The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has been wandering by himself in a Brazilian forest. Among the multitude of striking objects, the general... | |
 | T.F Glick, Miguel Angel Puig-Samper, R. Ruiz - 2001 - 308 pagina’s
...diary, he wrote: "Brazil, Feb. 29th. — The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest." When in Rio de Janeiro, Darwin visited the Jardim Botanico,... | |
 | Johnson Donald Hughes - 2001 - 280 pagina’s
...in Brazil, at Bahia, gave Darwin his first view of a moist tropical forest. "Delight ..." he wrote, "is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has been wandering by himself in a Brazilian forest."95 Unfortunately, that Atlantic coastal forest... | |
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The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants,... 
