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
As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede --… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma… — Holly Valance Copy Share Image
Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that… — George Parsons Lathrop Copy Share Image
So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a… — Rex Hunt Copy Share Image
This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands. — William Butler Yeats 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
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
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
Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until… — Robin Boyd 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
“Wild animals passed on their way under the leaves; each track was an arterial road; and when I stooped and looked at… — André Gide 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
Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did… — Thomas Chalmers 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
New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed… — Laila Robins Copy Share Image
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
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
I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's… — David Lynch 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
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
“And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space. And meaning.” — Richard O'Brien Copy Share Image
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Now did you know if a stick insect laid it's eggs in a jar of Bovril it will give birth to a… — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live;… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
