Quote of the day
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
Arthur Waley

Born: August 19, 1889
Died: June 27, 1966 (aged 76)
Bio: Arthur David Waley was an English Orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry.
Known for:
- Monkey (1942)
- Three ways of thought in ancient China (1939)
- The No Plays of Japan (1921)
- The Secret History of the Mongols
- More Translations from the Chinese (1919)