For decades, Jean-Henri Fabre dedicated himself to observing and describing insects in their natural habitats: from the digger wasp, the dung beetle, and the praying mantis to spiders and the nocturnal peacock moth. He produced literary biographical accounts that are among the most beautiful, sensitive, and also the most precise observations of animals ever written. Fabre was in contact with many intellectuals of his time, including Charles Darwin, whose views on instincts and the origin of species he vehemently rejected. However, with his memoirs, he created an unparalleled, inexhaustible artistic monument, a work of literature that is as unusual as it is outstanding, through which he reveals to the reader the poetry of life and nature. "I do not believe in God, I see Him," he assured in his old age. In the midst of it all.