“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
Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there… — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, they’ll realize that having one spider in the house kills a lot of the lesser insects.” — Drew Hayes Copy Share Image
Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Heroism and obscenity appear no more important in the life of the universe than the fighting or mating of a pair of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving… — Jeremy Rifkin 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
[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie.… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who… — Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary 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
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons… — Winkie Pratney Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and thats the lot. Theres no mercy in things.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Come the rains and the beerbahutis appeared all over the green. From where do they emerge, so perfect in shape and colour,… — Qurratulain Hyder Copy Share Image
“i do not see why men should be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned… — David Samuels Copy Share Image
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“...the insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals… — Henry Beard Copy Share Image
“And the roaches. The roaches were so bold in his flat that turning on the lights did not startle them. They waved… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
![“[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.” quote by Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/23e/annie-dillard-509_brain_insects-are-not-only-cold-blooded-and-gr_94933.jpg)
![“The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/75b/henry-adams-1542_american-politics_the-spectacle-of-american-politics-resem_1161179.jpg)
![“... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of…” quote by Henry Walter Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/852/henry-walter-bates-39989_blood_on-these-expanded-membranes-butterfly-wi_834124.jpg)
