Charles Darwin on the ubitquitous misconception about the reality of nature

“We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not see or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their [...] http://bit.ly/9rmqh4