Animal Quote by Robert Patrick

I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is…

— Lewis Thomas

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall…

— Joseph Addison

...like a predator about to devour the target.

— Alan Parry

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

— Jean de La Fontaine

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

— Virginia Woolf

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

— Isabella Rossellini

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

— Robert Breault

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which…

— Horace

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

— Marion Cotillard

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know…

— George Eliot

I'm not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why? It would take about a billion ants just to AIM a…

— Jack Handey

There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.

— Neal Bascomb