quotes evolution nature red in tooth and claw
Charles Darwin – Letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1856 Charles Darwin Letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1856 online

What a book a Devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low & horridly cruel works of nature!

Charles Darwin, Letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1856, Darwin Correspondence Project, July 13, 1856