2009年4月26日摄于北京颐和园

 

“It is interesting to contemplate an entangled 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 on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.”

 

“凝视树木交错的河岸，许多种类的无数植物覆盖其上，群鸟在灌木丛里鸣唱，各种不同的昆虫飞来飞去，蚯蚓在潮湿的泥土里爬过，并且默想一下这些构造精巧的类型，彼此是这样地相异，并以如此复杂的方式相互依存，而它们都是由于在我们周围发生作用的法则产生出来的，这岂非有趣之事。”

 

                                                                                        －－Darwin 1872，The Origin of Species