For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate. — Shana Alexander 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
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
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
There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects. — Carrie Fisher 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
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either. — Woody Allen 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
Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti 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
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
The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment. — Masanobu Fukuoka 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
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several… — Mark Twain 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
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
It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People. — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and… — Gretel Ehrlich 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
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
