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Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution

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In these beautiful lines Byron writes about Nature, about the sea, the wood. The forest is a community of living organisms, both plants and animals. We can perceive the wood poetically; Nature is a source of joy and inspiration. We can also look at the wood with an artist’s eyes and see the dazzling whiteness of birch trunks illuminated by the sunlight, the briskness of a red squirrel....

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society where none intrudes,

By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.

I love not man the less, but Nature more,

From these our interviews, in which I steal

From all I may be, or have been before,

To mingle with the Universe, and feel,

What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal

Byron, “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”, CLXXVII

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Volkenstein, M.V. (1994). Introduction. In: Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78788-1_1

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