Distant Quotes

In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

We here see in two distant countries a similar relation between plants and insects of the same families, though the species of both are different. When man is the agent in introducing into a country a new species this relation is often broken

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.