What is Fabre s attitude towards insects?

Fabre. I once said a sentence that showed my attitude towards insects:"A small point of life, a grain of protein that can be happy and sad, is more interesting to me than a huge inanimate planet. "

Fabre is a French entomologist, writer, and self-taught rural teacher who has spent his life dealing with insects, and is known as "Virgil of the insect world" by the French literary circles.

Fabre spent his life in poverty and frugal, and only wanted to write a "history" of insects - "Insects".

For a book about tiny bugs to be so widespread and long-lasting, we have to trace back to its author, who must have been an eternally chaste and pure child to make his work touching—past, present, and future.

A long time ago, readers thought that "Insects" was a popular science book for children, because it was concise and clear, simple and humorous, and it was very suitable for children who were curious about their surroundings. However, this does not negate that "Insects" is an immortal world masterpiece.

Fabre analyzes insect nature with human nature, and transforms the insect world into a text with knowledge, interest, beauty and thought in the human world.

With an innocent and simple heart, Fabre narrates one interesting insect world after another.

I don't think any writer has a profound knowledge of entomology, and no other entomologist has such a simple and concise expression, and Fabre is an organic combination of a natural scientist and a writer, both in writing and studying insects.

Mr. Luo Ogang wrote in the preface to the first edition of the 1992 Chinese translation of "Insects":

1.It is true, reliable, detailed, and profound;

2.The writing is concise and clear. There is no general literary work, and the general lyrical prose scratches the head and gestures, and its style is simple, funny, and self-contained.

Mr. Luo's assessment is very pertinent. Fabre's Insects is not just a rigorous scientific record, it is also a literary achievement (it has won several Nobel Prizes for Literature).

Extended Material: Fabre has been plagued by "poverty" and "prejudice" throughout his life. The first half of his life was poor, and the second half of his life was barely fed. Scholars in the literary and scientific circles despised Fabre's self-taught academic qualifications, let alone recognized his research direction, and the indifference and jealousy from everyone constituted an extreme prejudice against him.

Fabre sacrificed almost everything in order to do "observational experiments" - to write "Insects", he did not use his advantageous subject knowledge to publish some experimental results that were easy to study, but he had to study the psychology of insects with painstaking work. Fabre had many opportunities in life, but he did not use them to make a name for himself, and he remained content with poverty, even at the cost of trapping his family in poverty.

Fabre has almost forgotten everything, forgetting to eat, sleep, and pastime, not knowing the passage of time, the tiredness of the body, the bitterness and happiness of the world, and even can't tell whether the "barren stone garden" is a human house or an insect dwelling, as if insects have thoughts, and Fabre is a "worm man".

Fabre. Like a detective, he followed and observed insects for a long time, constantly making assumptions, reasoning repeatedly, and rigorously verifying, and spent a lot of time observing each kind of insect: 20 years for soil bees and 30 years for tunnel bees.

Fabre's observations are very comprehensive, meticulous, and factual, and he records them anytime and anywhere.

The most important thing is that Fabre has a plan and patience; Fabre's own consistent style is to "accurately describe the facts observed, adding nothing and ignoring nothing".

Fabre made an all-round, three-dimensional observation of its appearance, predatory habits, body structure, and living environment. If you can see it directly with the naked eye, there are some smaller insects that you can see with a magnifying glass.

The book "Insects", with its magnificent and rich connotation, arouses people's profound reflection on all things, human beings and popular science. The author integrates the colorful life of insects with his own life perceptions, and looks at insects with human nature. Through detailed and profound description, the external morphology and biological habits of various insects are recorded, and the life of various insects and the struggle for life and reproduction are recorded, which not only expresses the author's love and respect for life and nature, but also disseminates scientific knowledge, and embodies the author's meticulous observation and tireless spirit of scientific exploration.

Souvenirs Entomologiques (Insects) is also known as "The World of Insects".

Insect Story", "Entomological Notes" or "The Story of Insects".

It was Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre, a French entomologist and writer.

He is the author of a long-form biological work in ten volumes. The first volume was first published in 1879 and the entire book in 1907.