Amber Quote by Francis Bacon

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept…

— Hendrik Poinar

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who…

— Martial

“At night she’d close her eyes and imagine: over a hundred million billion insects hatching and dying every year—all those bristling, pointed, winged lifetimes:…

— Anthony Doerr

“The tomb in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now some days afterwards, when the…

— Bram Stoker

“And "Immortality" mildews ... in the museums of the moon”

— Mina Loy

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Insects are major players in nature's recycling effort, and in nature a corpse is simply organic matter to be recycled. Left to its own…

— M. Lee Goff

“Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?" "Yes." Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)”

— David Hume

The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of…

— Jean Lorrain

“Twenty-six thousand feet up the cols of Everest, a long way beyond the staying power of plants, pale spiders have been found, who subsist…

— James Agee