"In my youth, I spent my time investigating…" — Maria Sibylla Merian

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• In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were… — Karen Armstrong
• None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its… — Mary Astell
• Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its… — 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… — George Washington Carver
• The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear… — 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… — Rudolf Arnheim
• In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was… — Louis Agassiz
• ... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species,… — Henry Walter Bates
• The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of… — George Parsons Lathrop

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