Jean Henri Fabre Quote

There are no masters nor apprentices in their [spiders] guild; all know their craft from the moment that the first thread is laid.


Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life of the Spider, Chapter X (p. 248)


There are no masters nor apprentices in their [spiders] guild; all know their craft from the moment that the first thread is laid.

There are no masters nor apprentices in their [spiders] guild; all know their craft from the moment that the first thread is laid.

There are no masters nor apprentices in their [spiders] guild; all know their craft from the moment that the first thread is laid.

There are no masters nor apprentices in their [spiders] guild; all know their craft from the moment that the first thread is laid.