Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they… — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn’t get.” — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is… — Dominic Monaghan Copy Share Image
“Be respectful of the small insects, birds and animal people who accompany you. Ask their forgiveness for the harm we humans have… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
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My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their… — Nahoko Uehashi Copy Share Image
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why? It would take about a billion ants just to… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I grew up watching 'Star Trek.' I love 'Star Trek.' 'Star Trek' made me want to see alien creatures, creatures from a… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection)… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God’s hand, from… — J. C. Ryle 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
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
“Go on, eat one," he urged. "I'm not sure …" I hesitated, not out of revulsion—these little dead creatures just looked out… — Stephen Jack Copy Share Image
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
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The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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