angel-insect

Updated: July 13, 2025

It is true that the child's beautiful life is a brief one, like that of the angel-insect, and may be told in a paragraph; yet if I were to write only as many of them as there are "Lives" in Plutarch it would still take an entire book an octavo of at least three hundred pages.

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - A Traveller in Little Things