Word: wasteland
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...subjects that he loved) in provincial schools in Corsica and Avignon and writing textbooks to raise a large family and secure a modest competence that would allow him to devote himself wholly to his insect friends. At last, in 1879, he was able to buy some arid wasteland, called by the peasants harmas (worthless), at Serignan, a village in Provence. There in a small stucco cottage he lived till his death, a gentle, philosophical hermit, finding on his harmas a paradise of swarming insects. With tweezers, magnifying glass, tin box, he collected his living specimens, observed them in their diggings...