Grant Allen Quote

To the world at large, the aphides, as we call them, are mere nameless nuisances pests that infest our choicest plants; to the eye of the naturalist, they are a marvelous and deeply interesting group of animals, with one of the oddest pedigrees, one of the queerest biographies, known to science.


Flashlights on Nature, Chapter I (p. 2)


To the world at large, the aphides, as we call them, are mere nameless nuisances pests that infest our choicest plants; to the eye of the naturalist, ...

To the world at large, the aphides, as we call them, are mere nameless nuisances pests that infest our choicest plants; to the eye of the naturalist, ...

To the world at large, the aphides, as we call them, are mere nameless nuisances pests that infest our choicest plants; to the eye of the naturalist, ...

To the world at large, the aphides, as we call them, are mere nameless nuisances pests that infest our choicest plants; to the eye of the naturalist, ...