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
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
“Sooner or later, they’ll realize that having one spider in the house kills a lot of the lesser insects.” — Drew Hayes Copy Share Image
You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there… — Thalassa Cruso 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
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
[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist --… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie.… — Henry Adams 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
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are times I have sat in my room and watched a tiny insect cross the floor. Many a time, I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go?… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Here, Lena, tie this cotton kerchief 'round yo' mouth when we out walkin' in the woods...so yo' breath don't draw those 'squitas… — Tina McElroy Ansa Copy Share Image
I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art.… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence. — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make… — Jacques Perrin Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I just can't grasp the concept of sleeping outside with insects when I have a beautiful home with a really comfy bed! — Kim Zolciak-Biermann Copy Share Image
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect,… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image