QuoteQuest“Every morning during certain seasons of the year, the thrushes and blackbirds on all the lawns throughout the country draw out of their holes an astonishing number of worms; and this they could not do, unless they lay close to the surface.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Charles Darwin
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Chapter 1: Habits of Worms, p. 16.
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Darwin, Charles. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Charles Darwin. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
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