So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that… — Henry F. Ashurst Copy Share Image
Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able… — Ruth Rudner Copy Share Image
Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Unwittingly, every event and every microorganism - insect, fish, bird, animal, etc. - is playing a role that maintains a perfect balance… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Life is eternal; death only punctuates it for a short while. After a little break life starts again. Death is ultimate truth;… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
The summer day is closed - the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had… — Maggie Osborne Copy Share Image
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are… — Paul Hawken 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
Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. — John Muir Copy Share Image
I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I think it's so archaic that cosmetic companies are still using animal by-products and insects in their products! It's 2016, why is… — Jeffree Star Copy Share Image
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.” — Marlene Van Niekerk Copy Share Image
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
