Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.More Jean-Henri Fabre quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Jean-Henri Fabre quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Jean-Henri Fabre quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.More Jean-Henri Fabre quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.More Jean-Henri Fabre quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]