Insects Quotes

327 quotes by 261 authors

The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection… — William A. Dembski
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow… — Edmund Burke
Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at an estimated… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
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
Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the… — Ronald Ross
And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little… — Tim Winton
And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and… — Jack Finney
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer… — Edith Wharton
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for… — Natasha Trethewey
All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves… — Leo Tolstoy
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. — Edith Wharton
Fishing is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait. — P.J. O'Rourke
I think the future of food is in insects. — Shailene Woodley
The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner… — Celia Thaxter
[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
The dragon-fly is dancing,â€” Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her… — Heinrich Heine
On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair.… — Heinrich Heine
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many… — Heinrich Heine
So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in… — Charles Darwin

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