Ants Quotes - Page 12

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

E. O. Wilson

Successful, Years, Way

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And I guess, I guess it's a humanist film. It's not really a spiritual film and it's, you know, it's saying that we're all one tribe of humans and we're on this little rock, floating through the universe and (Amenabar) has these (transitional shots of) POVs where you see humans like ants.

Rachel Weisz

Spiritual, Rocks, Tribes

"Rachel Weisz Interview AGORA: The Oscar-Winning Star gets Deep about Religion, Movie Blogs and her Desire to be in J.J. Abrams' STAR TREK Sequel". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 28, 2010.

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There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.

Raph Koster

Fun, Sharks, Play

Raph Koster (2013). “Theory of Fun for Game Design”, p.96, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.

Janine Benyus

Nature, Animal, Thinking

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In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal, the difference is only in manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the greatest principle that India has preached.

Swami Vivekananda

God, Brother, Animal

"Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India".

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I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

Bear Bryant

Leadership, Basketball, War

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No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

War, Troops, World

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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.

Charles Darwin

Men, Views, Brain

Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin”

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There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

Winston Churchill

Philosophy, Years, Law

Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect us all.

E. O. Wilson

Rain, Knowledge, Science

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Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

Clarence Day

Rights, Political, Groups

Clarence Day (1997). “This Simian World”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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For how tiny the world,
This ant's egg-and the sky!

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Garden, Sky, Eggs

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Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

Og Mandino

Passion, Frustration, Years

Og Mandino (1988). “The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

Bert Holldobler

Nuclear, World, Weapons

Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1994). “Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration”, Belknap Press

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Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

Toni Morrison

Games, Snakes, Lions

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As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.

Mahatma Gandhi

Thinking, Elephants, World

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

Ingrid Newkirk

Clams, Form, Equal

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All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have clean air, clear water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, 'die'.

John Africa

Inspirational, Life, Weed

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I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest.

Frances Trollope

Coffee, Home, America

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A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.

Max O'Rell

Joy, Insulting, England

Max O'Rell (1893). “John Bull and His Daughters”

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Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.

Yvon Chouinard

Summer, Weekend, Climbing

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... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

Thomas Browne

Wise, Nature, Hands

"Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".

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If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.

Erwin Schrodinger

Warrior, Men, Forever

Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.

David Attenborough

Children, Book, Reading

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The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.

Laura Mullen

Dallas, Groups, Events

Source: therumpus.net

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