Insects Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.

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.

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.

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

(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.

bees dig the plum blossoms

When trees are stressed, they emit a different odor, just like a person under stress. Insects detect this odor and attack them.

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!

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.

He got close to nature. Paul was fascinated by how insects move, and he used to run after butterflies with a net,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Angels are just pretty insects.

I love insects. They are amazing.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

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.

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.

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.

(During the late spring and summer) grass seeds, green shoots and insects are a major food source for turkeys.

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?

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.

Some people who study insects think there may be as many as 100 million species out there.

I walk the straight lines. I walk through the summer nights. I walk the silver rope of dreams. I walk through dawns of dawns. Theres not a lot that isnt dying. I see people parading in front of each other like insects in a killing jar, watching each other die. I walk the straight lines throught the Christ machines. Through the eyes of throwaway people. Through the wards and the shores and the cracks in the skulls of the sidewalks. Through loves howling vacancy. I am the freedom soil. I dig my own grave. I resurrect myself every night. I am all things to myself. I walk the straight lines. I walk the spiderss jailhouse. I walk the think line, the thin line, the white line and all the line in between. I wish I could trade in my eyes.

They balance the world, ... They eat about 2,000 insects a night. Without the bats we couldn't live here.

This island is definitely a potential time bomb, because the shrinking of the sea and the likely emergence within a few years of a land bridge to the mainland and the possibility that insects and rodents, carrying deadly diseases, could cross over and infect the local population.

In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals.

INSECTIVORA, n.""See,"" cries the chorus of admiring preachers,""How Providence provides for all His creatures!""""His care,"" the gnat said, ""even the insects follows: For us He has provided wrens and swallows."" --Sempen Railey

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

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

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

You know the beauty of driving one of these? (Wulf) No. (Cassandra) You can swat a Daimon like a mosquito. (Wulf) Well, since they’re both bloodsucking insects, I say go for it. (Cassandra)

O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

You want to keep garbage covered so rats, flies, other insects and disease vectors can't get in there and spread things.

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

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

It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.

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.

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

It's weird how me and that insect are miles apart in terms of lifestyle, yet we both like a biscuit.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.

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

I think the future of food is in insects.

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

The Planet drifts to random insect doom.

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

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

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

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

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

The little, meagre, shrivelled, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

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

Specialisation is for insects!

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

Specialization is for insects.

In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.