Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able… — Ruth Rudner Copy Share Image
I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“This wobbly world host to insects and lint and a thousand pithy ways to feel unserious each minute It brings about a… — Erin J. Watson Copy Share Image
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist --… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
There are times I have sat in my room and watched a tiny insect cross the floor. Many a time, I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
The air was calm and insects had not yet risen off the water, that crisp time of morning before the sun strikes,… — April Smith Copy Share Image
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human… — Check Snopes.com Copy Share Image
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Decades of mismanagement have left our nation's forests vulnerable to insects and disease and ripe for catastrophic wildfires. — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
I just can't grasp the concept of sleeping outside with insects when I have a beautiful home with a really comfy bed! — Kim Zolciak-Biermann Copy Share Image
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence. — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
“Here, Lena, tie this cotton kerchief 'round yo' mouth when we out walkin' in the woods...so yo' breath don't draw those 'squitas… — Tina McElroy Ansa Copy Share Image
I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
