My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day. — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is… — Dominic Monaghan Copy Share Image
“Be respectful of the small insects, birds and animal people who accompany you. Ask their forgiveness for the harm we humans have… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects… — Carl E. Olson Copy Share Image
“In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn’t get.” — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why? It would take about a billion ants just to… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“I hate most bugs. Bugs fall into two categories as far as I'm concerned: Butterflies—which I want to play with, take pictures… — Jill Falter Copy Share Image
“Just listen to this: take two fruit flies and leave them in ideal living conditions for a year - equivalent to 25… — Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson Copy Share Image
The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance…Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“Laila could picture the flow of traffic all around her. From above, she watched the cars move along in streams like all… — Cliff Jones Jr Copy Share Image
“This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
There's no insects in American cuisine? Not one? I don't think there are. That's so sad. — Marcela Valladolid Copy Share Image
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
