Alder [In the Woods]’s Reviews > Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches > Status Update

“Seeing this graduation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.”

“ Daily it is forced home on the mind of the geologist, that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.”