 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1885 - 452 Seiten
...following opens up new fields of research scarcely dreamt of before: "When we behold the wide turf -covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, on...so much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all its inequalities having been levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection that the whole of the... | |
 | 1885 - 900 Seiten
...nourishment in times of famine. " When we behold a wide, turf -covered expanse," says Mr. Darwin, " we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly leveled by worms. It is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superficial mold over any such... | |
 | 1882 - 584 Seiten
...with which it lines its burrows. The mold that results is what is known as "vegetable mold." He says: "When we behold a wide turf-covered expanse, we should...mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly leveled by worms. It is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superficial mold over any such... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 Seiten
...striking passage in the book is the following paragraph, with which Mr. Darwin concludes it : — ' When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, on which BO much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly levelled by... | |
 | 1882 - 916 Seiten
...earthworms." He has shown us that the smoothness which we admire in a wide, turf-covered expanse " is mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly levelled by worms," and that " the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed, and will pass again,... | |
 | George Seaton Bowes - 1884 - 448 Seiten
...of harvest." EAETH-WOBMS. Mr. Darwin, in his singularly interesting work on ' Earth-worms,' says : " When we behold a wide turfcovered expanse, we should...much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the irregularities having been slowly levelled by worms. It is a marvellous reflection, that the whole... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 Seiten
...time they are accidentally uncovered and germinate. When we behold a wide, turf-covered ex" ' panse, we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly leveled by worms. It is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superficial mold over any such... | |
 | 1884 - 982 Seiten
...is brought to the surface." " When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse," he further observes, " we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly leveled by worms." The small part which worms play in this direction in our landscape is, I am convinced,... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 314 Seiten
...and is brought to the surface." "When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse," he further observes, " we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly leveled by worms." The small part which worms play in this direction in our landscape is, I am convinced,... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1885 - 390 Seiten
...is brought to the surface. " " When we behold a wide, turf -covered expanse," he further observes, " we should remember that its smoothness, on which so...inequalities having been slowly levelled by worms." The small part which worms play in this direction in our landscape is, I am convinced, more than neutralised... | |
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It is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass every few years, through the bodies of worms. The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long... 
