Quotes about insects
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When trees are stressed, they emit a different odor, just like a person under stress. Insects detect this odor and attack them.
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He got close to nature. Paul was fascinated by how insects move, and he used to run after butterflies with a net,
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Here and there a tawny brook prattled out from among the underwood and lost itself again in the ferns and brambles upon the further side. Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere--the sweet restful silence of nature.
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I have so often seen how people come by the name of genius - in the same way, that is, as certain insects come by the name of millipede, not because they have that number of feet, but because most people won't count up to fourteen.
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It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill. August Krogh
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we no longer have to get up at 4 a.m. We can sleep in until 6 a.m. The only problem is that we're all awake most of the night due to the high heat, humidity and being eaten alive by the steroid-enhanced flying insects around here. Timothy Egan
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(The extra headroom) gives us easy access to clean the dust, grain particles and fines from underneath the drying floor. It also helps to keep insects out during storage.
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May the winged birds that move in the air and in the sky descend; beasts of prey and insects shall seize upon them; the vultures that feed upon raw flesh shall hack into (their) carcasses!
dying body insects
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects. Charles Darwin
brain insects whim
She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim. Dennis Lehane
friends insects draws
Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects. E. T. A. Hoffmann
bees plums insects
bees dig the plum blossoms Charles Olson
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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? Richard P. Feynman
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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. E. O. Wilson
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This species of bat has been observed capturing insects near the ground and vegetation, which suggests they have a wider repertoire of sonar-guided behavior than previously recognized. We thought the sonar strobe groups might be well suited to helping the bat distinguish a small object from the more complex background you would find in the wild. Cynthia Moss
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In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
kissing sun insects
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses. Alexander Scriabin
care freak insects
I don't care how small or big they are, insects freak me out. Alexander Wang
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The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of much more consequence, and have much more influence in the economy of nature, than the incurious are aware of; and are mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity.
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Some people who study insects think there may be as many as 100 million species out there.
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(During the late spring and summer) grass seeds, green shoots and insects are a major food source for turkeys.
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The way communal insects behave with respect to each other produces very elaborate, complex behavior of the total, but the actual rules that any individual uses to relate to its fellows can be very simple. The critical thing is how does the swarm behave? Can we direct the individuals enough that the overall motion of the entire swarm is in the direction we want to proceed?
fool insects moths
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools! William Shakespeare
angel insects
Angels are just pretty insects. Christopher Moore
insects
I love insects. They are amazing. Andrea Arnold
serious insects young
I've become a much more serious young insect. Andrew Denton
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There are many other examples. West Nile virus spread from insects to humans; the avian flu we are now so worried about comes from birds. Diseases also jump to domesticated animals such as cows - the human variant of 'mad cow disease', from rodents, and from many different species.
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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus Cornelia Funke
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Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look like us, so that's a different take on the same basic design. But fish don't look like us, and giraffes don't. They look a little like us, but not too much. And insects certainly don't look like us, and they work just fine. Seth Shostak
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While the use of pesticides has resulted in a wide range of benefits to control weeds, insects and other pests, including increased food production and reduction of insect-borne disease, their use also raises questions about possible effects on the environment, including water quality.
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We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic.
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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. Hendrik Poinar
flower insects universe
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe. Jostein Gaarder