Insects Quotes - Page 12

• I fear no man, no woman;
  flower does not fear
  bird, insect nor adder.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fear, Flower, Men

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.295, New Directions Publishing

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• As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!

  Mary Alice Monroe

  Butterfly, Whales, Bird

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• London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Long, World, London

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• From my earliest memories I was fascinated by animals. I would explore my backyard for insects and gaze at anthills until my elbows became sore. When I was 8, my mother bought me a book of North American birds and I've been keen on birdwatching since.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Mother, Memories, Book

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• The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

  H. G. Wells

  Blow, Men, Air

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.3987, e-artnow

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• Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

  Hugh Blair

  Sports, Pain, Selfish

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• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

  Edward Young

  Children, Greatness, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

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• My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

  Francis Bacon

  Beautiful, Love Is, Tree

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• The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

  James Larkin

  Soul, World, Publicity

  James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

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• Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

  Francis Bacon

  Beautiful, Tree, Violence

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• There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

  Eva Green

  Art, New York, Wall

  "Eva Green interview for Tim Burton's Dark Shadows" by Nisha Lilia Diu, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 10, 2012.

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• I was really interested in collecting insects.

  Satoshi Tajiri

  Collecting

  "The Ultimate Game Freak". Time Magazine Interview (Volume 154, No. 20), content.time.com. November 22, 1999.

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• It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Earth, Chance, Opinion

  "The Silver-Tongued Sunbeam". Time, August 7, 1939.

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• Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace of mind!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Spring, Winter

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• As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Cheer, Humility

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.194, Graphic Arts Books

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• The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Animal, Rivers

  "Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 19, 1972.

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• If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

  Andre Gide

  Flower, Men, Worry

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• I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, People, Film

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• bees
  dig the plum blossoms

  Charles Olson

  Plums, Bees, Plum Blossoms

  Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.213, New Directions Publishing

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• My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

  Walter Mosley

  Art, Father, Responsibility

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.10, Black Classic Press

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

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Long, Critics

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Thinking, Healthy, Disease

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• Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Butterfly, Doors

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.103

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

  Shana Alexander

  Travel, Tourists, Plates

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• The insect-youth are on the wing,
  Eager to taste the honied spring,
  And float amid the liquid noon!

  Thomas Gray

  Spring, Wings, Taste

  1748 Ode on the Spring, l.25-30.

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