Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes - Page 2

• It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Animal, Organization, Habit

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1869). “The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise”, p.267, London, Macmillan

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• I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Years, Tuesday, Mind

  Sir James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace (1916). “Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (Complete)”, p.80, Library of Alexandria

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• What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

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  Bird, Bills, Herons

  Alfred Russel Wallace (2016). “Travels on the Amazon”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Marriage, Law, Public Opinion

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