«Below, in the hedges, you collected the scarlet flowers of the pomegranate, which hails from Africa; above, you will pick a small, fuzzy poppy, whose stems hide under a blanket of small stones, and whose large yellow petals burst forth in the glacial solitude of Greenland and North Cape, as they do on the upper slopes of the Ventoux.»
Jean-Henri FABRE, Souvenirs entomologiques (Entomological memories)