Because I have stirred a few grains of sand on the shore, am I in a position to know the depths of the ocean?


Translated by Maurice Maeterlinck, In Jean-Henri Fabre, The Life of the Spider, Preface (p. 34), Dodd, Mead & Co. 1913

Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

Because I have stirred a few grains of sand on the shore, am I in a position to know the depths of the ocean?

Because I have stirred a few grains of sand on the shore, am I in a position to know the depths of the ocean?

Because I have stirred a few grains of sand on the shore, am I in a position to know the depths of the ocean?

Because I have stirred a few grains of sand on the shore, am I in a position to know the depths of the ocean?