Barns Quote by Aldo Leopold

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal…

— Ambrose Bierce

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

— Arthur Ransome

I was really interested in collecting insects.

— Satoshi Tajiri

Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!

— Adela Popescu

Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.

— Dave Barry

Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap…

— Samuel Johnson

I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles'... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you…

— Suzanne Collins

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Monday ushers in a particularly impressive clientele of red-eyed people properly pressed into dry-cleaned suits in neutral tones. They leave their equally well-buttoned children…

— Amanda Sledz

Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of…

— Michael Dickinson

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

— Brigitte Bardot

I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

— Harry Markopolos