Balance Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect…

— Douglas Tallamy

Why do the caterpillar and the ant have to be enemies? One eats leaves, and the other eats caterpillars. Oh, I see now.

— Jack Handey

“The words of Nils Hellstrom. There is another respect in which we must guard against becoming too much like the insects upon whom we…

— Frank Herbert

“Quite simply, plants don’t want to be eaten—and who can blame them? Like any living thing, their instinct is to propagate the next generation…

— Steven R. Gundry

“...the insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far from being…

— Neal Stephenson

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

— Alan Chadwick

Deep down we are all predators and from the beginning we were born with a strong survival instinct! But what I see today is…

— Mattias Konradsson

Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.

— Kofi Annan

When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of…

— Richard Heinberg

“Ants eat seeds, spiders eats ants, birds eat spiders, foxes eat birds, wolves eat foxes, bears eat wolves. The Sun alone will never be…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and…

— Janet Macunovich

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to…

— Steven Pinker