Jean Henri Fabre Quote

Dear insects, my study of you has sustainned me and continues to sustain me in my heaviest trials. I must take leave of you for to-day. The ranks are thinning around me and the long hopes have fled. Shall I be able to speak of you again?


Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Bramble Bees and Others, Chapter V (p. 191)


Dear insects, my study of you has sustainned me and continues to sustain me in my heaviest trials. I must take leave of you for to-day. The ranks are ...

Dear insects, my study of you has sustainned me and continues to sustain me in my heaviest trials. I must take leave of you for to-day. The ranks are ...

Dear insects, my study of you has sustainned me and continues to sustain me in my heaviest trials. I must take leave of you for to-day. The ranks are ...

Dear insects, my study of you has sustainned me and continues to sustain me in my heaviest trials. I must take leave of you for to-day. The ranks are ...