Flora with a liberal hand has scattered around us, her charming productions, they every where meet and allure us, enchanting us by their beauty, regaling us by their fragrance, and interesting us as much by their subservience to our luxuries and comfort, as to the necessary support and well-being of our life.

An Introduction to Entomology; Or, Elements of the Natural History of, Insects, Introductory Letter (pp. 2-3)