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Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

Charles Darwin
Country, Science, Journey
Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.862, Delphi Classics

Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

Charles Darwin
Tattoo, Country, Regions
Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7537, Delphi Classics

As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.

Charles Darwin
Country, Views, Land
Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection”, p.296, Courier Corporation

I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it! I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the negro character.

Charles Darwin
Country, Character, Leaving
Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.10033, Delphi Classics

My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years.

Charles Darwin
Country, Book, Years
Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.159, NYU Press

If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils.

Charles Darwin
Country, Mean, Race
Charles Darwin (2008). “The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.503, Cosimo, Inc.

I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

Charles Darwin
Country, Book, Doubt
Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.

Charles Darwin
Country, Science, Two
Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Darwin (1987). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 10: The Foundations of The Origin of the Species: Two Essays Written in 1842 and 1844”, p.21, NYU Press

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