In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You must walk sometimes perfectly free, not prying or inquisitive, not bent on seeing things. Throw away a whole day for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The eye sees the physical body, other individuals, even insects, worms and things. It sees everything that is within its range. The… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“The greenhouse was made entirely of glass. Its ceiling reached five stories high, tall enough to fit a variety of fruit-bearing trees… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
Our race is the Master Race. we are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one,… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
In Alaska, the beaches are slumping so much, people are having to move houses. In Tuktoyaktuk, the land is starting to go… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier Copy Share Image
Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their world as 'black and white,'… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Summer romances cometo an end. That was part of the deal. They are built like certain plants or insects, not able to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and… — Charles Spurgeon 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
The dragon-fly is dancing,— Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Great flocks of raindrops swelled and folded, and fell upon her like insects to a feast. She hadn’t thought to bring a… — J.R. Tompkins Copy Share Image
I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you… — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve.… — Lord Chesterfield 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
