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Quotes About Insects

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.
~ John B. S. Haldane
its four walls were covered with neatly executed drawings of vast cobwebs with insect and butterfly prey in them being fed upon by spiders. It was a pictorial scene from a nightmare.
~ Unknown
Only bugs can truly appreciate the beauty of flowers.
~ Dov Davidoff
The cicadas, as if they were wired on the same circuit, suddenly filled the garden with a loud burst of celebration.
~ Peter Carey
The temperature had disturbed the insects, and a cloud of midges made every outline hazy.
~ Philip Pullman
But the light in front of the mosque-- the light I stood in as I was greeted like a local hero, simply for rising from my bed three hours after most of the women and children I lived with-- this light was something else again. It buzzed and held you in its heat, it was thick, alive with pollen and insects and birds, and because nothing higher than one story interrupted its path, it gave all its gifts at once, blessing everything equally, an explosion of simultaneous illumination.
~ Zadie Smith
this light was something else again. It buzzed and held you in its heat, it was thick, alive with pollen and insects and birds, and because nothing higher than one story interrupted its path, it gave all its gifts at once, blessing everything equally, an explosion of simultaneous illumination. "What
~ Zadie Smith
Él descarta una colcha por temor a los bichos.
~ Idries Shah
Agarra una abeja desde la amabilidad y aprenderás las limitaciones de la amabilidad.
~ Idries Shah
Why do ants alone have parasites whose intoxicating moistures they drink and for whom they will sacrifice even their young? Because as they are the most highly socialized of insects, so their lives are the most intolerable.
~ Cyril Connolly
In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They're incredibly plentiful. They've got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites.
~ Mary Roach
History isn't only a subject; it's also a method. My method is, generally, to let the dead speak for themselves. I've pressed their words between these pages, like flowers, for their beauty, or like insects, for their hideousness. The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist; it is the work of the sleuth and the storyteller, the philosopher and the scientist, the keeper of tales, the sayer of sooth, the teller of truth.
~ Jill Lepore
Jalapeño sky raisins?" "Bees and wasps.
~ Jill Shalvis
He told me that when a male honeybee mates, its testicles explode and the penis is left inside the queen bee.
~ Jill Shalvis
Was it possible this big, athletic godboy of war was afraid of spiders? Yes, it was. Lots of people were. She wasn't that crazy about them herself. But being around Tithonus had made her much less afraid of arachnids—and insects as well—than she might've been otherwise.
~ Joan Holub
Dust was dangerous, I insisted. Insects bred in it.
~ Unknown
The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
~ Virginia Woolf
There was an old man of St. Bees, Who was stung in the arm by a wasp; When they asked, "Does it hurt?" He replied, "No, it doesn't, But I thought all the while 'twas a Hornet.
~ Unknown
Il y a au centre africain un lac peuplé d'insectes mâles et qui ne savent que mourir à la fin du jour
~ Philippe Soupault
Terry remembered a summer two or three years ago when there had been a plague of luna moths (...) One night Ghost has mused aloud that to the bats, the moths' blood must taste like crème de la menthe.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.
~ Rachel Carson
All this has come about because of the sudden rise and prodigious growth of an industry for the production of man-made or synthetic chemicals with insecticidal properties. This industry is a child of the Second World War. In the course of developing agents of chemical warfare, some of the chemicals created in the laboratory were found to be lethal to insects. The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man.
~ Rachel Carson
At altitudes of 6000 to 16,000 feet, and with wind velocities reaching 45 miles an hour, many living insects have been taken.
~ Rachel Carson
Ino the course of developing agents of chemical warfare, some of the chemicals created in the laboratory were found to be lethal to insects, The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man.
~ Rachel Carson