The original instructor............

Close observation of a single subject, whether it is as small as Pasteur's microbes or as great as Einstein's universe, is the kind of work that happens less and less these days.  Glued to computer and TV screens, we have forgotten how to look at the natural world, the original instructor on how to be curious about detail.
-Jennifer New
as excerpted from How To Be An Explorer of the World

photo courtesy of mmescherzo