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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.
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.
All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.
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 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.
Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!
There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.
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.
It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.
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.
Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
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.
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.
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.
Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject
Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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 was more of, like, into butterflies, insects, playing out in the yard, planting flowers. I was really into plants.
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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.
Unlike some viruses, we don't know what the natural reservoir is for Ebola. A lot of people think it's bats, but it's still very controversial; it could have been circulating in insects, in an environment, or in individuals.
Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.
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.
Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
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.
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.
Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.
It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.
The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.
The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.
You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.
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.
Of course, there are things I'm afraid of, but I'm not afraid of insects.
Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.
I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant lot.
Decades of mismanagement have left our nation's forests vulnerable to insects and disease and ripe for catastrophic wildfires.
Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.
When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.
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 heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.
Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.
It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.
I just can't grasp the concept of sleeping outside with insects when I have a beautiful home with a really comfy bed!
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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.
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.
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
