Insects Quotes

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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 love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. — Nicolas Cage
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
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from… — Chanakya
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
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes… — Henry Walter Bates
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
Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard;… — George Parsons Lathrop
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
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
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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
Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either. — Woody Allen
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

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