Our Daily Bill: Quarters

There isn’t a picture without a branch of willow or hazel or alder or fir or birch over it. There are bunches of last year’s dead bracken, dock, and rushes stuck into various crevices, there’s a glass-covered box on the wall with the Swallow-tail chrysalises, pots of water with sprouting chestnuts and young sycamores, branches of thorn, beech and oak, with the old leaves on, and a map of South Africa stuck on the wall with seccotine.

– E.A. Wilson, describing his living quarters, 1900
from Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, pg 68