But, alas, I am assured that Michael Sims is a living, breathing individual.
Life is unfair.
Nature distributes her gifts unequally. But Darwin's Orchestra isn't just a parade ground for Sims's brilliance. In the first place, there is Darwin, who appears in a number of entries and informs those in which he is not actually present . . . Then there is the cumulative effect of this book of days. You can't read it without becoming something of an environmentalist.