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Dedication

This website is dedicated, with deepest admiration, to the memory of JEAN HENRI FABRE (1823-1915), undisputed King of all the (entomological) "Back-Yarders"! And here is a revealing quote:

"This is what I wished for - a bit of land, oh, not so very large, but fenced in, to avoid the drawbacks of a public way...." - J.H. Fabre, from The Passionate Observer.

One could speculate that Fabre's imagined "needs" were few indeed, or at the most, very simple... Disease-insurance? Fashionable clothes? "Image"? "Life-style"??? Never entered his head, I'm sure! (What! - No car, route-planner, day-planner, cell-phone, pager, voice-mail, answering machine, call-waiting, iPod, iPhone, FAX machine, computer, CD/DVD, e-mail, thumb-drive, blackberry, PDA, RFID, GPS, VCR, or television set??....How did he ever make it through the day without all that "multi-tasking"???!) Please note, also, that he reached the ripe old age of 92, without any "help" from medical or drug "research". One could further speculate that he was not suffering from any prescription-drug "deficiencies", and also that he was highly content with his lot. AND that his foods were simple, organic, and not genetically modified....To repeat, this was 1823-1915.

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