A Quote by Jane Goodall

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I'd caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall
English - Scientist
Born: April 3, 1934

The dragonfly is an exceptionally beautiful insect and a fierce carnivore. It has four wings that beat independently. This gives it an ability to maneuver in the air with superb dexterity. A dragonfly can put on a burst of speed, stop on a dime, hover, fly backward, and switch direction in a flash. This is a hunting behavior known as hawking.

Richard Preston

So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

John Marsden

I remember one time watching a bird snatch a dragonfly out of midair and thinking, 'Gee, life can come to an end - crunch! - just like that.'

Gary Larson

Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.

Kobayashi Issa

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

Ziggy Marley

If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

Simon Barnes

Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.

Lorine Niedecker

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

Jimi Hendrix

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

Louie Schwartzberg

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

Janet Fitch

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star

Joni Mitchell

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.