Insects Quotes

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Years, Environmental

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

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Challenges, Thrive

  "Our Cosmic Patch". Interview with Helen Matsos, www.astrobio.net. January 3, 2005.

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

  Jonas Salk

  Earth, Humans, Ifs

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• Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Eye, Garden

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• In the vast, and the minute, we see
  The unambiguous footsteps of the God,
  Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing
  And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.

  William Cowper

  Wings, Giving, Rolling

  William Cowper (1855). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.594

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

  Woody Allen

  Life, Fun, Science

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hilarious, Gratitude, Animal

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• Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

  Martin Amis

  Sound, Noses, Neurosis

  1995 The Information, pt.3.

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Flower, Butterfly, Self

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• Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Love Life, Men, Order

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Unity of Religious Ideals”, p.28, Library of Alexandria

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• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

  Gerald Brenan

  Butterfly, People, Relaxation

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• Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

  Gore Vidal

  Blood, Two, Greek

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Law, Theory Of Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Specialization

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

  Christina Rossetti

  Hurt, Butterfly, Animal

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.379, Delphi Classics

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• The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.

  Emily Dickinson

  Artist, Spiders, Merit

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.418, Harvard University Press

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

  Ogden Nash

  God, Wisdom, Silly

  1942 Good Intentions,'The Fly'.

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• Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Two, Pet

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck", The Saturday Evening Post, p. 17, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. October 26, 1929.

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

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Scary, Secret

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• The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Food, Animal

  "The pedigree of honey" l.1 (ca. 1884)

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• 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.

  Don Marquis

  Men, Atheism, Proud

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.58, Anchor

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• Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

  Honore de Balzac

  Flower, Heart, Intuition

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.88, 谷月社

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• Some primal termite knocked on wood.
  And tasted it, and found it good.
  And that is why your Cousin May
  Fell through the parlor floor today.

  Ogden Nash

  Cousin, Science, May

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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