History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows… — 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,… — 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
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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