Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“El archipiélago de los Galápagos, situado en el Ecuador, está entre 500 y 600 millas de distancia de las costas de América del Sur. Casi todas las producciones de la tierra y del agua llevan allí el sello inequívoco del continente americano. Hay 26 aves terrestres, de las cuales 21, o quizá 23, son consideradas como especies diferentes; se admitiría ordinariamente que han sido creadas allí, y, sin embargo, la gran afinidad de la mayor parte de estas aves con especies americanas se manifiesta en todos los caracteres, en sus costumbres, gestos y timbre de voz. Lo mismo ocurre con otros animales y con una gran proporción de las plantas, como ha demostrado Hooker en su admirable flora de este archipiélago.”
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.