 They can be described only by negative characters; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains, they support merely a few dwarf plants. Why, then, and the case is not peculiar to myself, have these arid wastes taken so firm a...  Bulletin - Page 36by United States. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Statistics - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body. In calling up images of the past, I find that the...by all wretched and useless. They can be described only by negative characters; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains,... | |
 | Elisée Reclus - Geography - 1876 - 676 pages
...impression on all observers. "In calling up the images of the past," writes Charles Darwin, " I find the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes ; yet these plains are pronounced by all to be most wretched and useless. They are characterized only by negative possessions ; without habitations,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1879 - 254 pages
...may conclude that the whole area of the Pampas is one wide sepulchre of extinct gigantic quadrupeds. In calling up images of the past, I find that the...before my eyes; yet these plains are pronounced by everybody wretched and useless. Without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1889 - 628 pages
...these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in ^ man than the mere breath of his body. In calling up images of the past, I find that the...by all wretched and useless. They can be described only by negative characters ; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains,... | |
 | Charles Darwin, R. T. Pritchett - Beagle Expedition - 1890 - 606 pages
...in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body. In calling up images of the past, I find that the plains of Patagonia xxi RETROSPECT 535 frequently cross before my eyes ; yet these plains are pronounced by all wretched... | |
 | George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1892 - 672 pages
...Darwin himself has told us, after going round the world, that " In calling up images of the past, I find the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes ; yet these plains are pronounced by all to be most wretched and useless. They are characterised only by negative possessions ; without habitations,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Astronomy - 1892 - 492 pages
...Darwin himself has told us, after going round the world that " in calling up images of the past, I find the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes ; yet these plains are pronounced by all to be most wretched and useless. They are characterised only by negative possessions ; without habitations,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Natural history - 1893 - 284 pages
...significance. It is as follows, and the italicization is mine:—" In calling up images of the past, I find the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes; yet these plains are pronounced by all to be most wretched and useless. They are characterized only by negative possessions ; without habitations,... | |
 | Elisée Reclus - Geography - 1895 - 620 pages
...impression on all observers. " In calling up the images of the past," writes Charles Darwin, " I find the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes ; yet these plains are pronounced by all to be most wretched and useless. They are characterized only by negative possessions ; without habitations,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 542 pages
...in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body. In calling up images of the past, I find that the...by all wretched and useless. They can be described only by negative characters ; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains,... | |
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