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
Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of… — James Lee Copy Share Image
One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part,… — William Booth Copy Share Image
I've had 72 absolutely flaming years. It (the illness) doesn't bother me at all, because, you know, love, when you've lived like… — Vali Myers Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on… — William F. Longgood Copy Share Image
I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
“No longer could I root happily into my mother's company and find comfort in her rounded shape. There was no one to… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have… — Edward Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
