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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: subjects for study within my daily reach and to save myself the
trouble of casual excursions, I collect different Epeirae whom I
find in the course of my walks and establish them on the shrubs in
my enclosure. In this way, a rosemary-hedge, sheltered from the
wind and facing the sun, is turned into a well-stocked menagerie.
I take the Spiders from the paper bags wherein I had put them
separately, to carry them, and place them on the leaves, with no
further precaution. It is for them to make themselves at home. As
a rule, they do not budge all day from the place where I put them:
they wait for nightfall before seeking a suitable site whereon to
weave a net.
The Life of the Spider |
