In his book "King Solomon's Ring," the famous animal behaviorist Konrad
Lorenz devotes a couple of chapters to his aquarium studies. Lorenz firmly
believed in the value of aquarium observations and in the special appeal of
native organisms.
He wrote: "A man can sit for hours before an aquarium and stare into it as
into the flames of an open fire or the rushing waters of a torrent. All
conscious thought is happily lost in this state of apparent vacancy, and
yet, in these hours of idleness, one learns essential truths about the
macrocosm and the microcosm. If I cast into one side of the balance all
that I have learned from the books of the library and into the other
everything that I have gleaned from the "books in the running brooks," how
surely would the latter turn the scales."
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