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  • Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

    Jean-Henri Fabre, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos (2000). “The Life of the Fly”, p.175, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.

    Kings   Food   Names  
  • Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

    Past   Fossils   Instinct  
  • If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

  • The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

    Jean-Henri Fabre, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos (2000). “The Life of the Fly”, p.117, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

    Names   Records   Wheat  
  • All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny, either tragic or miraculous. History record the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

    Pain   Destiny   Names  
  • Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

    Heritage   Firsts   Bees  
    Jean-Henri Fabre (1998). “The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature”, Chronicle Books Llc
  • Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

    Jean-Henri Fabre (1911). “Souvenirs Entomologiques”, London : A. and C. Black
  • Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

  • We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

    Herds   Vulgar  
    Jean-Henri Fabre (1998). “The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature”, Chronicle Books Llc
  • In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggested by one's reading. I have experienced this once again. ... Yes, ignorance can have its advantages; the new is found far from the beaten track.

    Jean-Henri Fabre (1911). “Souvenirs Entomologiques”, London : A. and C. Black
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