To insects--sensual lust.

If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to…

— Russell Kirk

“Insects have always spoiled my life.”

— Françoise Hardy

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects…

— Salman Rushdie

A tiny fly can choke a big man.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.

— Kobayashi Issa

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

— Don Henley

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ...…

— Henry F. Ashurst

So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the…

— John Marsden

“This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned beetles, flitting…

— Susan Wiggs

At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have…

— Hokusai

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

— Bert Holldobler

“...the insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far from being…

— Neal Stephenson

So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively…

— Charles Darwin

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

— Edna O'Brien

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants…

— Hal Borland