It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively;… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous… — Elias Hasket Derby Copy Share Image
I have not eaten a lot of insects. I ate a termite in Africa, but it was on a bet. It was… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“dragonflies circled me, the sun knifing off the brilliant blues and yellows of their bodies.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There are no insect eggs in my food.” Mrs. White reiterated. You should use that in your advertising,” Nate suggested. — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike,… — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
The firefly is an unassuming insect in the daytime. If you didn't know what it was, you'd think it was nothing special.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands,… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image