This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-halicti-the-portress. A hedge of currant-bushes, the only safeguard against a terrible fall, forms a parapet above the next terrace. Check more stories related to science at: https://hackernoon.com/c/science. You can also check exclusive content about #science, #non-fiction, #hackernoon-books, #project-gutenberg, #books, #jean-henri-fabre, #ebooks, #bramble-bees-and-others, and more. This story was written by: @jeanhenrifabre. Learn more about this writer by checking @jeanhenrifabre's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Leaving our village is no very serious matter when we are children. We even look on it as a sort of holiday. We are going to see something new, those magic pictures of our dreams. With age come regrets; and the close of life is spent in stirring up old memories. Then the beloved village reappears, in the biograph of the mind, embellished, transfigured by the glow of those first impressions; and the mental image, superior to the reality, stands out in amazingly clear relief. The past, the far-off past, was only yesterday; we see it, we touch it.