
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Fabre , Jean-Henri (2010-10-14), The Story-Book of Science, General Books LLC, Retrieved on 2011-05-20Source Material [www.mainlesson.com]
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20 MAY 2011
Nature's Stories are More Amazing than Human Stories
“I approve of your wanting true stories,” said he. “You
will find in them at the same time the marvelous, which
pleases so much at your age, and also the useful, with which
even at your age you must concern yourselves, in preparation
for after life. Believe me, a true story is much more
interesting than a tale in which ogres smell fresh blood and
fairies change pumpkins into carriages and lizards into
lackeys. And could it be otherwise? Compared with truth,
fiction is but a pitiful trif...One is the work of god, the other the work of man.
20 MAY 2011
Uncle Paul Investigates the Natural World
And so they say that Uncle Paul knows any number
of stories. He investigates, he observes for himself. When
he walks in his garden he is seen now and then to stop
before the hive, around which the bees are humming, or
under the elder bush, from which the little flowers fall
softly, like flakes of snow; sometimes he stoops to the
ground for a better view of a little crawling insect, or a
blade of grass just pushing into view. What does he see?
What does he observe? Who knows? They say, however...And learns nature's wonderful secrets.