The Meadow of Small Kingdoms
On a long summer day in a sunlit meadow, an old beekeeper walks a young naturalist slowly from ant road to hive to spiderweb, until the smallest creatures reveal one quiet pattern holding the whole field together.
Retold from The Natural History, by Pliny the Elder.
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Also in the podcast episode The Old Woman, the Little Pig, and the Long Kindness of the Lane.
