The Tangled Bank: Writings from Orion

ISBN-13: 9780870716799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str.

Robert Michael Pyle

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It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us Charles Darwin, "The Origin of Species"
Robert Michael Pyle s popular Tangled Bank column appeared in fifty-two consecutive issues of "Orion" and "Orion Afield" magazines over eleven years. Each essay collected in "The Tangled Bank" explores Charles Darwin s contention that the elements of such a bank, and by extension all the living world, are endlessly interesting and ever evolving.

Pyle s thoughtful and concise narratives range in subject from hops and those who love them to independent bookstores to the monarchs of Mexico. In each piece, Pyle refutes the idea that the world is a boring place, sharing his meticulous observations of the endless and fascinating details of the living earth."