Top 321 Insects Quotes & Sayings

Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.

I think the future of food is in insects.

The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.

There's no insects in American cuisine? Not one? I don't think there are. That's so sad.

I love insects. They are amazing.

Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.

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

Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.

Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either.

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea.

I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

Specialization is for insects.

I don't care how small or big they are, insects freak me out.

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

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.

Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

I have not eaten a lot of insects. I ate a termite in Africa, but it was on a bet. It was a soldier termite. It was alive, and I don't really recommend the live soldier termite as something you want to start with if you're going to start exploring eating insects.

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.

Whenever you're in a natural system and you're making sound, you are putting yourself at risk. As you go up the evolutionary ladder, from insects to frogs to birds and on up into mammals, the higher intelligence recognizes that when you vocalize, you put yourself at risk. So mammals generally vocalize or make noise much more rarely than, let's say, insects or frogs. And when they do, and put themselves at risk, it has to be worth the risk, and have true meaning, such as signaling during a hunting party, calling in prey, some religious or spiritual ceremony, something like that.

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

Specialisation is for insects!

Angels are just pretty insects.

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

I was really interested in collecting insects.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.

I love all kinds of insects, and I've heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

I really liked insects - all kinds: flies, grasshoppers, weevils.

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

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.

From one point of view we can say that we have human bodies and are practicing the Buddha's teachings and are thus much better than insects. But we can also say that insects are innocent and free from guile, where as we often lie and misrepresent ourselves in devious ways in order to achieve our ends or better ourselves. From this perspective, we are much worse than insects.

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up, and suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music. It just seemed a very, very strange thing.

Cats are like insects. They should be left outside to clean up the garbage.

Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride Jump out all ways with happiness their guide; And from my brushing feet moths flit away In safer places to pursue their play. In crowds they start. I marvel, well I may, To see such worlds of insects in the way, And more to see each thing, however small, Sharing joy's bounty that belongs to all. And here I gather, by the world forgot, Harvests of comfort from their happy mood, Feeling God's blessing dwells in every spot And nothing lives but owes him gratitude.

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.