Nature Book Reader June 2020 - Flipbook - Page 33
creative and alert when we
are just playing about and
wasting time. There’s a
whole chapter here where
Darwin is trying to figure
out why marine iguanas
– which can swim – will not
swim unless you make them.
He spends an afternoon just
lobbing one into the sea. It’s
like something from Just
William. Behind the theory
of evolution is the very
simple – but controversial
– idea that the Earth was old
but that life was young. And
in this book life feels very
young. Reading it is like
reading by daylight in the
Garden of Eden.
Further Reading
The I-Spy Book
of Birds
Snow Geese
by William Fiennes
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