Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Evolution
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In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to create birds. The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. From rustling leaves she came in the course of ages to the loftier flight and clear carol of the bird.
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There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
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The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
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Things do not change; we change.
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For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
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