“Delight is ... a weak term for such transports of pleasure: I have been wandering by myself in a Brazilian forest: amongst the multitude it is hard to say what set of objects is most striking; the general luxuriance of the vegetation bears the victory, the elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants, the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage.”
February 29th 1832
“I am quite ashamed at the very little I have done…a few insects and plants make up the sum total.”
March 2nd & 3rd 1832
Charles Darwin The Journal of a Voyage in H.M.S. Beagle
