Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière

"Creator! _Nature!_" said the young lady in answer to my gentle father.
"And this disease that invades the country is natural. Nature. All things proceed from Nature - don't they? All things in the heaven, in the earth, and under the earth, act and live as Nature ordains? I think so."

"Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see--each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure. So says Monsieur Buffon, in his big book, in the next room."

|Carmilla Sheridan LeFanu 1872|
|George Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon|
|Victoria Prinzessin von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha|
|Vanessa Beecroft|