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
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
When I see nature, when I look into the sky, the dawn, the sun, the colors of insects, snow crystals, the night… — Michelangelo Antonioni 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
Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride… — John Clare Copy Share Image
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Insect resistance to a pesticide was first reported in 1947 for the Housefly (Musca domestica) with respect to DDT. Since then resistance… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
Insects leave (Madagascar periwinkle) Catharanthus roseus out of their diets. So, for that matter, do deer. The reason is that the plants… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools! — William Shakespeare 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
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
Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the… — Conor Oberst 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
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the… — Ed Engle Copy Share Image
Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is… — Rachel Carson 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
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