Insect Quotes

111 quotes by 99 authors

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower… — Immanuel Kant
The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful… — Michael O'Donoghue
It's weird how me and that insect are miles apart in terms of lifestyle, yet we both like a biscuit. — Karl Pilkington
So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll… — Rex Hunt
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients… — Ambrose Bierce
We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones have… — Russell Means
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is… — George Eliot
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. — Edith Wharton
[T]hroÂ’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide?… — Alexander Pope
Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries. — Jean de la Bruyere
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
How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds… — Jules Renard
I've become a much more serious young insect. — Andrew Denton
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse. — Don Henley
Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it.… — Larry Niven
Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even… — D. H. Lawrence
Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And… — Abraham Cowley
Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also… — Rachel Carson
We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to… — Rachel Carson
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,… — Rachel Carson

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