Insects Quotes - Page 7

• The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man . . . . It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Arrogance, Phrases

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!

  Emily Dickinson

  Experience, Tunes, Noon

  Emily Dickinson, “Like Trains Of Cars On Tracks Of Plush”

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• A tiny fly can choke a big man.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Men, Tiny, Choke

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• 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

  Risk, Wish, Needs

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.

  Joel-Peter Witkin

  Dust, Connections, Cosmos

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• Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.

  Rachel Carson

  Wings, Bird, Decision

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?

  Rachel Carson

  Healthy, Matter, Soil

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.

  Hokusai

  Real, Animal, Bird

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• I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.

  Wes Craven

  Writing, School, Titles

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• Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

  Paul Fussell

  Boys, Defense, Youth

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• Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

  Dalai Lama

  Nature, Responsibility, Animal

  The Dalai Lama (2009). “Worlds in Harmony”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

  Alexander Pope

  Wings, Hawks, Dove

  Alexander Pope (1840). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author ...”, p.249

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• Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

  Abraham Cowley

  Morning, Wine, Self

  Abraham Cowley (1772). “Select works of mr. A. Cowley [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.148

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• I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Hate, Legs, Bread

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• I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.

  Glen Duncan

  Mouths, Bigs, Hated

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• Now summer is in flower and natures hum
  Is never silent round her sultry bloom
  Insects as small as dust are never done
  Wi' glittering dance and reeling in the sun
  And green wood fly and blossom haunting bee
  Are never weary of their melody
  Round field hedge now flowers in full glory twine
  Large bindweed bells wild hop and streakd woodbine
  That lift athirst their slender throated flowers
  Agape for dew falls and for honey showers
  These round each bush in sweet disorder run
  And spread their wild hues to the sultry sun.

  John Clare

  Summer, Running, Sweet

  John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell (2004). “Major Works”, p.135, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The air was calm and insects had not yet risen off the water, that crisp time of morning before the sun strikes, when it is still cool enough to work out solutions to sticky problems.

  April Smith

  Morning, Air, Work Out

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• What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell.

  Ilana Mercer

  Apology, Ideas, Evil

  "Obama: Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry". www.wnd.com. November 15, 2013.

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• By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.

  George Orwell

  Block, Believe, Mean

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• Cats are like insects. They should be left outside to clean up the garbage.

  Michael Mewshaw

  Cat, Garbage, Clean

  Michael Mewshaw (2000). “PLAYING AWAY”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires -- all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser.

  Tim Lebbon

  Fun, Past, Air

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• We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

  Bert Holldobler

  Play, Ants, Behavior

  Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1990). “The Ants”, p.370, Harvard University Press

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• Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the eaves of the veranda. I did not allow the punka to be used because it blew about my dissected mosquitoes, which were partly examined without a cover-glass; and the result was that swarms of flies and of 'eye-flies' - minute little insects which try to get into one's ears and eyelids - tormented me at their pleasure

  Ronald Ross

  Eye, Dark, Science

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• Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

  Conor Oberst

  Kindness, War, Rain

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• And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

  Tim Winton

  Wall, Block, Light

  Tim Winton (2014). “The Riders”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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