“dragonflies circled me, the sun knifing off the brilliant blues and yellows of their bodies.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play. — Bert Holldobler Copy Share Image
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
On Earth we have these insects. Some people said it was pollution or mobile phones. — Donna Noble Copy Share Image
Cats are like insects. They should be left outside to clean up the garbage. — Michael Mewshaw Copy Share Image
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done… — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of… — Boaz Lavie Copy Share Image
The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding. — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, With golden treasures load his little… — John Gay Copy Share Image
In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Ben: "Gorog's no assassin! She's my best friend." Mara: "She's an insect, Ben." Ben: "So? Your best friend's a lizard." Mara: "Don't… — Troy Denning Copy Share Image
Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride… — John Clare Copy Share Image
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses. — Alexander Scriabin Copy Share Image
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
