Jean Henri Fabre, nineteenth-century French entomologist and author of the massive Souvenirs Entomoligies, has inspired perhaps more modern writer/naturalists than any other chronicler of the natural world.
"The writings of Fabere are classic because they compose an
accurate natural history of creatures all around us, written in a
vivid personal style that will never grow old or tired." —E.O.
Wilson
"This is beautiful, knowledgeable prose." —Annie Dillard, from On
Nature
"Fabre could write about his discoveries simply and beautifully so
that even people who did not understand anything about entomology
could appreciate them." —Gerald Durrell
"What makes Fabre interesting as a writer is his unabashed
emotional involvement in the behavior of his subjects. He is no
cold, aloof observer, but a man who is at once fascinated and
repelled by the gap between human values and reason and the blind,
amoral strategies or instinct. His descriptions of how insects
conduct their lives read at once as factual natural history and
moral parables—but parables modern in their recognition that there
are no parallels for human ethics in nature." —Robert Finch and
John Elder, from The Norton Book of Nature Writing
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