Sunday, April 27, 2025

Bonus Sunday 4: "A Laboratory of the Open Fields" by Jean Henri Fabre

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S is for Science

Summary: Get a garden and study the bugs in it.

Bonus: Not what the piece is about, but whatever.


Commentary: "Hoc erat in votus" This was my wish.

Short bonus today. Pretty good, about Fabre's attempt to acquire enough land to study nature (mostly insects) in his way. He's more interested in seeing them alive and at work than dissecting them and what not. Interesting piece, and I think it has merit. He makes the various insects sound pretty interesting, and I think it'd be good for any of us to go out into a park or back yard or whatever and go poke around in still alive nature a bit. The above quote is from Horus. It seems to be reasonably popular, but I'd never heard it before. Always fun to find the origins of these famous saying and what not. 3/5, go look at bugs.

I was thankful for going fishing with my dad today.

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