If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Heroism and obscenity appear no more important in the life of the universe than the fighting or mating of a pair of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You know the beauty of driving one of these? (Wulf) No. (Cassandra) You can swat a Daimon like a mosquito. (Wulf) Well,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and thats the lot. Theres no mercy in things.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with… — John Clare Copy Share Image
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons… — Winkie Pratney Copy Share Image
Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and… — William Jacob Holland Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“Bugs never bug my head. They are amazing. It is the activities of humans which actually bug me all the time.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea. — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and… — Robert Pierce Copy Share Image
“...the insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings?… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Come the rains and the beerbahutis appeared all over the green. From where do they emerge, so perfect in shape and colour,… — Qurratulain Hyder Copy Share Image
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“Life is but a flash of time, a momentous flicker-- in the life that we know and space we live in on… — Virginia Wright Copy Share Image
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus… — Martial Copy Share Image
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned… — David Samuels Copy Share Image
“i do not see why men should be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
