Social equality is the only basis of human happiness.
—Nelson Mandela, (1 August 1970)
—Nelson Mandela, (1 August 1970)
(original source unknown)
Paris, France
French painter Bernard Durin (1940-1988) became smitten with beetles in the summer of 1972 as he tramped the countryside in Provence. His artist’s eye aroused by the galaxies of insect life, he eventually found his necessary models at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, which gave him access to its trove of preserved insects… (read more and see more images here).
—Mark Twain