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Insects Quotes by Rachel Carson
- 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…
- Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by…
- 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…
- 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,…
- The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man…
- It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
More Insects Quotes
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — 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… — Mary Astell
- Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Rudolf Arnheim
- In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz
- ... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly… — 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… — 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… — George Parsons Lathrop