Capitolo 87
very bright colors, and to race to very great ransoms to attract
the attention of a great number of visitors, one or other of whom
casually enrich them; while been crying with very special adaptations,
as the wise man and mint it gathers, or the small orchids English, is this way
it cunningly systematized that they cannot fail of fertilisation to the very
before you visit that it clearly trains them in wide measure to distribute
with the help of great or bright petals. This way that, where the struggle
for the life it is fiercer, and the most perfect adaptation, the wish of flora on
the whole one is not more anymore, but least, evident of the matter of a lot
good-looking flowers.
Now, the struggle for the life is more fair, and the wealth of nature is
greater, one don't have proper need says, in tropical climates. There alone face us
you find every thumb of ground 'it encumbered from his/her fertility of waste', as Comus
it puts him/it; weighed down by the luxuriant growth of tree, bush, grass,
creeping animal. There alone face lizards wait for in every hole; coleopters indulge
you multiply in every crack; butterflies assemble thick in every grove; bees,
ants and swarm of flies from myriads on every sun-tormented slant.
In the tropics, adaptation comes accordingly, to its taller point; and
entangled wealth, not the beauty of colour becomes the dominant note of
the equatorial forests. Now and then, to be sure, as You vague through
Brazilian or Malayan woods, you can turn on on the bright tree dressed in
scarlet flower, or of the glorious orchid that he bends pendant from a branch
with long it sprinkles some beauty: but such sights are infrequent. Green, and
green, and never green again--that is the public opinion of the
equatorial forest: as different as possible from the rich mosaic of a
tall alp in June the beginning or a deep Scottish slant in gilded gorse and
you redden heather in wide light of the sun of August.
In very cold countries, on the other hand although conditions are
severe, the struggle for existence is not really so very hard, because, in