The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Flies struggled from her mouth, only to ignite into brilliant golden sparks. Hundreds of them, thousands of them burst from her into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Then she saw them both as little girls with wicker baskets in hand as they gathered treasures from Ivy's garden. Beautiful beetles… — Kirsten Miller Copy Share Image
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone's service… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies,… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds… — John Updike Copy Share Image
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is amazing what a lot of insect life goes on under your nose when you have got it an inch from… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively;… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I have not eaten a lot of insects. I ate a termite in Africa, but it was on a bet. It was… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
From my earliest memories I was fascinated by animals. I would explore my backyard for insects and gaze at anthills until my… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous… — Elias Hasket Derby Copy Share Image
When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don’t know what insect it was, but it was brown,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I got a little studio in Chicago and practiced. I realized I had to earn some money. So I went to work… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels,… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Insects leave (Madagascar periwinkle) Catharanthus roseus out of their diets. So, for that matter, do deer. The reason is that the plants… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image