Nothing in nature, or in providence that is scant, or defectuous, can be stable and lasting.

Admitting the coast to be a bit dangerous for extended tours, the bay is veritably a succession of land-locked harbors, in which the water is sufficiently smooth to make easy sailing for even the most sensitive of marineresses.

When an ecological network is expressed as a series of energy flows and transformation steps where the transformation steps are represented as Lindeman efficiencies, the resulting transformities represent trophic convergence and a measure of the amount of solar energy required to produce each level in the hierarchy.

The birds were nowhere to be seen or heard, not even a singing willy-wagtail lightly flittering from rock to rock […].