The first time I read the following passage from The Voyage, I was reminded of my own first experience in a rain forest (in Zaire). Evident in this passage is at least a glimmering of Darwin's appreciation for the complexity of ecosystems. Darwin could be considered the first scientific ecologist. Enough of my commentary ... this passage very much stands on it's own ...
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*note Global Warming is VERY BAD and title is sarcasm.
Most people are bothered by those passages
of Scripture they do not understand,
but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
-- Mark Twain