Note 6 — Chapter XI · THE PROFESSOR: AVIGNON (CONTINUED)
Bernard Miall translation
To any one with any love of plants, to any one with blood in his veins, the expedition was a tempting one. So we see him set out for the twenty-third time in company with two colleagues6 and five others. Let us join them if we wish to make the acquaintance of the botanist of Mont Ventoux as well as the botany; for Fabre is one who throws himself wholly into all that he does, and his history can no more be divorced from that of his plants than from that of his beloved insects.