Quotes by Jean-Henri Fabre
3 quotes by Jean-Henri Fabre (died 1915), taken from 3 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: Nouveaux souvenirs entomologiques, The Life of the Grasshopper and Souvenirs entomologiques.
Nouveaux souvenirs entomologiques
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“For forty years have I fought, with steadfast courage, against the paltry plagues of life; and the long-wished-for laboratory has come at last. What it has cost me in perseverance and relentless work I will not try to say.”
The Life of the Grasshopper
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“I see in the Grasshopper’s fiddle, the Tree-frog’s bagpipes and the cymbals of the Cacan but so many methods of expressing the joy of living, the universal joy which every animal species celebrates after its kind.”
Souvenirs entomologiques
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“The ball which is destined to contain the egg is not made in public, in the hurry and confusion of the dung-yard. It is a work of art and supreme patience, demanding concentration and scrupulous care, both alike impossible in the thick of the crowd.”