Behinds Quote by Benjamin Stillingfleet

The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.

— Jim Carrey

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony,…

— E. O. Wilson

“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”

— Marlene Van Niekerk

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see…

— Sylvia Earle

For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and…

— Charles Dickens

“He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him.”

— Thomas Harris

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and…

— Washington Irving

All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than…

— Daniel Quinn

“Man is encased, as though in a shell, in the particular ranking of the simplest values and value-qualities which represent the objective side of…

— Max Scheler

“A living organism does the best it can with its given situation. If a root encounters a stone, it grows around it. If a…

— David Bagby

An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our…

— Anonymous

“Along the Oregon coast an arm of the Pacific shushes softly against rocky shores. Above the waves, dripping silver in the moonlight, old trees,…

— Sheri S. Tepper