Growing Species

Famous quotes containing the words growing and/or species:

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing boy.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)