Insects Quotes - Page 2

• Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

  Luther Burbank

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

  George Crumb

  Wind, Water, Bird

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• That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Friendship, Nature, Philosophical

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• I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.

  Holly Valance

  Karma, Spiders, Rooms

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• No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

  Edith Wharton

  Vanity, Weight, Nests

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.112, Xist Publishing

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• If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Greed, Humanity, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Charles Darwin

  Dying, Body, Inches

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt (1998). “Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection, 1825-1859”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Eye, Breathing, Silence

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Beautiful, Men, Flying

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• As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

  Mark Twain

  Art, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.57, 谷月社

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Lying, Knowledge

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1956). “The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals”

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• I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

  George Washington Carver

  Life, Flower, Hypocrite

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• The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
  Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Garden, Bugs

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 217

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Mind, Fluttering, Capricious

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Dog, Stupid People

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• Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

  Jack Abbott

  Suffering, Way, Innocence

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

  Thomas Cech

  Want, Strange, Study

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports Interview, embor.embopress.org. September 2001.

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• It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Real, Moving, Flesh

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• 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.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Joy, Moments, Splendid

  "Either/or, Vol. 1". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, p. 20, 1987.

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• Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

  George Eliot

  Play, Needs, Inward

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.243, 谷月社

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• I've become a much more serious young insect.

  Andrew Denton

  Serious, Young

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

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• It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Scary, Desire, Cockroaches

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tragedy, Would Be, Left

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

  Alexander Scriabin

  Kissing, Sun, Born

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• As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Song, Flower, Color

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