Quote of the day
Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
Margaret Gatty

Born: June 3, 1809
Died: October 4, 1873 (aged 64)
Bio: Margaret Gatty was an English children's author and writer on marine biology.
Known for:
- Parables From Nature (1855)
- The Book of Sun-Dials (1872)
- A Key to Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'






