"I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow."

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The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up by devoting ourselves to the study of the actual state of the living world, and to those monuments of the past in which the relics of the animate creation of former ages are best preserved and least mutilated by the hand of time.

— Charles Lyell