Insects Quote by Cornelia Funke

“The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus” quote by Cornelia Funke — Download Open image

“The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus”

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“Yes, Mo would come. Meggie could think of nothing else as Fenoglio led her away with him, his arm around her as if he could really protect her from Capricorn and Basta and all the others. But he couldn't. Would Mo be able to protect her? Of course not. He mustn't come, she thought. Please. Perhaps he won't be able…

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Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

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Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a…

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Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

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Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming…

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... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

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So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively…

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We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

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“This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned beetles, flitting hummingbirds and sapphire dragonflies. The sun-warmed sweet haze of the blossoms filled the air. "When I was a kid," said Isabel, "I used to capture butterflies, but I was afraid of the bees. I'm getting over…

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Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

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Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.

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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

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