Insects Quotes

327 quotes by 262 authors

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every… — Henry David Thoreau
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
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds… — E. O. Wilson
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance… — Ambrose Bierce
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
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the… — Hans Zinsser
Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink with… — Kuki Gallmann
Even with insects - some can sing, some can't. — Kobayashi Issa
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones… — H. Bentley Glass
Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have… — Mahatma Gandhi
As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one… — Carl Linnaeus
If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi,… — Konrad Lorenz
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
Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too… — Joseph Wood Krutch
I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why… — Laurence Sterne
An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs… — Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
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
â€ŽInterdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It is because our… — Dalai Lama
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their… — Charles Dickens

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