Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smalles…

Pliny the Elder
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures. ✨ Pliny (the Elder.) (1997). Natural History: Books 8-11, Loeb Classical Library
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