People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s…

We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and…

— Chris Noth

“What did the weevils say? ‘We-evil!”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing,…

— Anonymous

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the…

— Michael Dickinson

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

— Emile M. Cioran

If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do…

— Mary Kingsley

The Planet drifts to random insect doom.

— William S. Burroughs

Now did you know if a stick insect laid it's eggs in a jar of Bovril it will give birth to a litter of…

— Tim Vine

“It is amazing what a lot of insect life goes on under your nose when you have got it an inch from the earth.…

— Beryl Markham

At some point, some insect has had sex with a leaf.

— Karl Pilkington

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

— Edith Wharton

Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is…

— Dave Barry

Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What would they…

— Noam Chomsky

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

— Martin Rees

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the…

— Marlene Zuk