There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Beetles never stop. They gnaw silently and relentlessly. Guilt is like that too.” — Gregg Olsen Copy Share Image
I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on… — George Deukmejian Copy Share Image
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
“They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
Mountain Pine bark beetles need -37°C (-35°F) for three days to freeze to death. Unfortunately, with global warming, that no longer happens… — Mark Leiren-Young Copy Share Image
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
“My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares:… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
“Tackled some giant, burrowing beetles the other week, if you can believe that…. At that stage I didn’t know about it either… — Mark Speed Copy Share Image
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Love has made him surprise himself. He would never have believed it possible, but it's turned out that he is a man… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount,… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“The great evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane (1892-1964), on being asked by a cleric what biology could say about the Creator,… — David Beerling Copy Share Image
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