Existence Quote by Marlene Van Niekerk

“A few insect skeletons lay scattered on the narrow sill, shiny and precise and sad as broken jewelry.”

— Ed Park

“With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become…

— Larry Watson

“You realize how small you are in the grand scheme of things. We’re not really the rulers of this planet, we’re just tenants, and…

— wildbow

“Nothing is unexplained. Nature is a chain reaction. Everything is dependent on something else. The smallest is as important as the largest”

— Bryce Courtenay

“He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom…

— Voltaire

“And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.”

— Philip K. Dick

“The leaves of this enormous tree, those are the million places where life lives and things happen and creatures come and go.”

— Michael Chabon

“The importance of nature. The feeding it gives the soul. The sense it gives of a whole world out there reminding you that you…

— Miranda Hart

“Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don’t know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and…

— Saul Bellow

“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us theirs?”

— Emile Cioran

“Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small. The stalks of flowers are thick as oak trees. Leaves are high as the domes…

— Virginia Woolf