To appoint one's self... an inspector of Spiders' webs, for many years in succession and for long seasons, means joining a not overcrowded profession, I admit. Heaven knows, it does not enable one to put money by! No matter: the meditative mind returns from that school fully satisfied.


Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life of the Spider, Chapter IX (p. 232)

Jean Henri Fabre Quotes

To appoint one's self... an inspector of Spiders' webs, for many years in succession and for long seasons, means joining a not overcrowded...

To appoint one's self... an inspector of Spiders' webs, for many years in succession and for long seasons, means joining a not overcrowded...

To appoint one's self... an inspector of Spiders' webs, for many years in succession and for long seasons, means joining a not overcrowded...

To appoint one's self... an inspector of Spiders' webs, for many years in succession and for long seasons, means joining a not overcrowded...