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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce 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
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
I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give… — Charles Busch 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
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
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
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 greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is… — Stephen Colbert 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
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
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
The reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles. — John B. S. Haldane 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
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
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
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