This text is an excellent vehicle to achieve the goals of this course: learning how to learn from experience and studying the powers of the soul of the living thing. This book, accomplanied by King Solomon's Ring, provides examples, delightfully, and the nature drawing book helps the student observe what he sees rightly. In the second semester the student applies the principles that he has learned from these texts to a project of his own.

Students who are interested in reading more by J Henry Fabre about insects might enjoy reading The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre (Please note: this text can not be used as a susbsitute for Fabre's Book of Insects in the MODG Natural Science LS class.)