Insects Quotes
Insects Quote of the day
If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.
Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.
Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.
Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.
I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.
One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.
I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.
One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.
Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.
Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
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.
In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.
Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.
It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.
The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.
Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.