History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean. — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
“Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes of the… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny, either tragic… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not,… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring to studying… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
“ La clarté est la souveraine politesse de qui manie une plume . (Clarity is the sovereign politeness of the one who wields a pen.)” — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
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