Insects Quotes

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At some point, some insect has had sex with a leaf. — Karl Pilkington
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we… — Jack Abbott
A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted… — Benjamin Hoff
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world.… — Arthur C. Clarke
Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant. — Richard Lovelace
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools! — William Shakespeare
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. — Jonathan Swift
Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and… — Mark Twain
Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or,… — Walt Whitman
Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and… — Brian Williams
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
If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish. — Jonas Salk
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs.… — Pema Chodron
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. — George Crumb
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
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a… — David McCullough
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
Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower… — Robin Boyd
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

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