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The habits of insects are very mines of interesting knowledge, and it is impossible carefully to watch the proceedings of any insect, however insignificant, without feeling that no writer of fiction ever invented a drama of such absorbing interest as is acted daily before our eyes, though to indifferent spectators.

John George Wood

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

John George Wood

John George Wood

Born: July 21, 1827
Died: March 3, 1889 (aged 61)
Bio: John George Wood, or Rev J. G. Wood,, was an English writer who popularised natural history with his writings.
Known for:
  1. Animate creation
  2. The Popular Natural History (1876)
  3. The Common Objects of the Country (1858)
  4. The Fresh and Salt-water Aquarium (1868)

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