Pliny the Elder Quote
In these minute creatures [insects], so nearly akin as they are to non-entity, how surpassing the intelligence, how vast the resources, and how ineffable the perfection which she [Nature] has displayed.
Translated by John Bostock and H.T. Riley, The Natural History of Pliny (Volume III), Book XI (p. 2)
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