Chance Quote by Henry F. Ashurst

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

— Buenaventura Durruti

“If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within…

— Jonas Salk

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared…

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If all the insects were to disappear on the earth,within fifty years all life on earth would end, If all human beings were to…

— Jonas Salk

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

— Jonas Salk

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the…

— E. O. Wilson

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That…

— David Attenborough

Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.

— Thomas Eisner

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

— E. O. Wilson

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when…

— Don Marquis

Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to…

— Jeff Schweitzer