Capitolo 88
a word there is less competitors. The field is busy less; life
it is less rich, less various, I lead the same-strangulation. And therefore
specialisation almost you/he/she has not gone to cold latitudes till now or
altitudes. You lower and types simpler occupies everywhere the ground; musks,
flowers covered with mats, the small coleopters, dwarf's butterflies. Nature is less
luxuriant, still in of the ways most beautiful. As we rise on the mountains
the trees of forest disappear, and with them the beasts of forest, from bears
to squirrels; a minimum, wind-swept vegetation succeeds, a lot of poor man in
kind, and shabby in growth, but making a floor of rich flowers
almost unknown elsewhere. The humble butterflies and coleopters of the
production of colder elevation in the result the most beautiful flower that the
honey-seekers extremely developed of the richest and the warmest lowlands.
Luxuriance is served fine for as a carpet of Turkey of the floral magnificence.
As, then it has the world to, great fallen in the pardonable error of
tropical nature that believes for being so rich in colouring and circumpolar
nature to be so dark and not agreeable? Simply so, I believe. The
tropics embrace the greatest areas of earth of the world, and it are richer from
thousand times in kind of plants and animals that the whole rest of
the earth in a clot put together. That wealth necessarily results
from the boldness of the competition. Now among this enormous mass of
tropical plants that naturally happens that some have flowers more excellent than
some moderate kind; while as to the animals and birds, they is,
undoubtedly, on the whole one, both greatest and handsomer that the fauna of
colder climates. But in the general aspect of tropical nature a
bright occasional flower or bright parrot it counts very little for
among the mass of excessively drinks green that surrounds and it conceals him/it. On the
other hand, in our museums and greenhouses us sedulouslies choose out
the rarest and more beautiful of this rare and beautiful kind, and
we isolate them to us completely from their natural outskirtses. The