The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and I must… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
