Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

James Rodway Timehri

Subjects:

Botany, Darwinism

    Relates how the vegetation in tropical rain forests fights 'to get to the top, where alone there is sunlight' with such intensity that 'for a time you almost regard the trees as living beings which tear with tiger claws at each other's vitals'. Even the most beautiful tropical trees, then, experience an 'intense [...] struggle for existence'.