"Fabre tells us that he was from the beginning interested in these strange splinters of life; but that one day he read an uncommon essay by a great student and that the effect was as if a spark had fallen into his mind and set it all alight. For the first time he realised that to collect insects in glass-topped boxes and to classify them under hard names was not the whole of insect science. There was something more: you could watch insects till you knew them, till they revealed to you their habits and tricks, their methods of doing things, their surgical skill their reasons for their actions, their characters."
--Eleanor Doorly, The Insect Man, available for download here
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