David thoreau Quote by Michael Finkel

“My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“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

“Thoreau has been my companion for some days past, it having struck me as more appropriate to bring him out to a pond than…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“He taught them not to give the Green Gimlet Toad too much water, and to never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian Wolfsnake near…

— Lemony Snicket

“my father encouraged me to enter medicine. He told me it was much nobler to worry about humans than about bugs. But you know,…

— Heather O'Neill

“The cultural fear of “bugs” we have as a society, without understanding what they do or how vital they are to the rest of…

— Joey Santore

“beetle-spirited vaporing”

— Richard Adams

“That many biologists were bound to get themselves into trouble sooner or later. If you've ever been to an Ichs and Herps meeting, you…

— Joe Roman

“Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the…

— Peter Ackroyd

“This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“He blinked in the gloom. He was wearing heavy black trousers and a waistcoat over a stiff white shirt. His exoself, having chosen an…

— Greg Egan