Insect Quotes

111 quotes by 99 authors

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons,… — Karen Armstrong
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. — Mary Astell
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which… — Honore de Balzac
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its… — George Washington Carver
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? — Emile M. Cioran
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest… — Rudolf Arnheim
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a… — Louis Agassiz
The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if… — Sir Thomas Blount, 1st Baronet
About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the… — Joshua Slocum
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark… — Paul Hawken
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and… — Victor Hugo
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the… — Chief Seattle
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall… — William Jacob Holland
I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes… — Jerry Spinelli
A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where… — Wilhelm II
I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap into… — Robert Patrick
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre… — Ana Mendieta

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