Insect Adventures by J. Henri Fabre and Louise Seymour Hasbrouck

Petty truths, I shall be told, those presented by the habits of a spider or a grasshopper. There are no petty truths today; there is but one truth, whose looking-glass to our uncertain eyes seems broken, though its every fragment, whether reflecting the evolution of a planet or the flight of a bee, contains the supreme law.
Maurice Maeterlinck