What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created. — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
Golly, he's just a pest and your worst best friend, Who mend and rip space-time fabric like polyester blend. — Daniel Dumile Copy Share Image
The only problems are the pests. You see, most places have mice or mosquitoes. We have...dragons. — Hiccup Copy Share Image
Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations. — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions. — Kieran Bew Copy Share Image
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I try to pester Christian Dunn from time to time. As soon as my schedule allows, I plan to make a real… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing. — Joseph Rago Copy Share Image
Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable. — Johann Most Copy Share Image
House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern… — Peter Singer 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
It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit,… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard,… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the… — J. G. Holland 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
Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to… — John Beddington Copy Share Image
For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers. — Vickie Winans Copy Share Image
Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means. — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
![“Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of food price volatility we haven't seen since the oil crisisof 40 years ago. Unfortunately, this could be just a taste of things to come because in the…” quote by John Beddington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/john-beddington-51874_agriculture_extreme-weather-like-the-droughts-in-rus_2919622.jpg)
