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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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This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. At this still hour the self-collected soul Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there Of high descent, and more than mortal rank; An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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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