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Charles Darwin Quotes:

Ocupation: Naturalist

Life: February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882

Birthday: February 12

Death: April 19

Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (1864). “Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World: Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy”, p.299

topic: Cicadas, Tropics

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