“...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise” ScienceFoodFruitParadiseRivalsAvocados Author:David Fairchild
“The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.” MindHumansPersonsScienceNamesBehindsWonderSawsFieldsThousandHorseGlassesShipsPocketsHuman MindSimplestThrillingMicroscopesSteeples Author:David Fairchild
“Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.” WorldScienceSeaStrangeBirdMajorityPlantSpeciesCancerFishesZoneSnakesInsectsFringePoisonousLizardsTropic Of CancerCapricornsPoisonous Snakes Author:David Fairchild
