Fit as Fiddles and as Hard as Nails

Changing currents of the atmosphere. We see the soaring vulture employing the wind to raise it; the hovering kingfisher to steady it; the dragon-fly to poise it; even the flying fish inclines its body to the wind to sustain it in its ocean leap.
Summary of Insects
Such are the most obvious of the humbler creatures that seek a home in these sand swept plain. They are apparent to every eye because they move about in the full light of day, often in dense multitudes. But when night wraps these solitudes in a deeper silence, another fauna creeps out upon the sands. Creatures amongst the most repulsive in living nature, appear beneath the cloak of darkness to hold dominion over the desert and wage with one