Insects Quote by Ann Zwinger Download Open image “Flies are the price we pay for summer.” — Ann Zwinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Insects Pay Summer
I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing. — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
“This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes,… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing, and within… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming… — Hal Borland Copy Share
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play. — Bert Holldobler Copy Share Image
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have… — Hokusai 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 beetles, flitting hummingbirds and sapphire dragonflies. The sun-warmed sweet haze of the blossoms filled the air. "When I was a kid," said Isabel, "I used to capture butterflies, but I was afraid of the bees. I'm getting over… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ...… — Henry F. Ashurst Copy Share Image
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
