Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon! — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's weird how me and that insect are miles apart in terms of lifestyle, yet we both like a biscuit. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch. — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.” — Marlene Van Niekerk Copy Share Image
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me. — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the… — Eknath Easwaran 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
Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It… — Dalai Lama 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
“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
Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings;… — Benjamin Stillingfleet 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
English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Some flies and gnats were sitting on my paper and this disturbed me; I breathed on them to make them go, then… — Knut Hamsun 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
Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows,… — Santoka Taneda 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
Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and… — William Jacob Holland 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
Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“The cultural fear of “bugs” we have as a society, without understanding what they do or how vital they are to the… — Joey Santore Copy Share Image
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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