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
All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think it's so archaic that cosmetic companies are still using animal by-products and insects in their products! It's 2016, why is… — Jeffree Star 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
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
...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 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
The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
It's weird how me and that insect are miles apart in terms of lifestyle, yet we both like a biscuit. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
“Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects. — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with… — John Clare Copy Share Image
We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings;… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
“Wild animals passed on their way under the leaves; each track was an arterial road; and when I stooped and looked at… — André Gide Copy Share Image
The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects… — Carl E. Olson Copy Share Image
Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its… — 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Blount Copy Share Image
Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
You know the beauty of driving one of these? (Wulf) No. (Cassandra) You can swat a Daimon like a mosquito. (Wulf) Well,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What gives a wriggle And makes you giggle When you eat'em? Whose weensy little feet Make my heart really beat? Why, it's… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
