Beetles Quotes

• The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Special, Preference, Creator

  "What is Life? The Layman's View of Nature". Book by John B. S. Haldane, 1949.

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• I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name

  A. A. Milne

  Names, Littles, Found

  A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.57, Egmont UK

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• There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Mammals, Planets, Species

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• If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Stars, Study, Creation

  "What is Life? The Layman's View of Nature". Book by John B. S. Haldane, 1949.

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• I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Nature, Humorous, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Stark Munro Letters”, p.92, The Floating Press

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• Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.

  Tony Hillerman

  Eye, Reality, Men

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• Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Boys, World, Foolish

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• We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

  Annie Dillard

  Men, Feet, Merciful

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.179, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

  Charles Darwin

  Wonderful, Structure, Faculty

  Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.81, Hackett Publishing

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• It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Unique, Clouds

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• The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

  John Lennon

  Ideas, Looks, Beats

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• O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Bumps, Swirls, Musk

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.148, Indiana University Press

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• When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fighting, Battle, Puddles

  Song: Fox In Socks

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• Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

  Eva Green

  Butterfly, People

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• One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one.

  Charles Darwin

  Hands, Two, One Day

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.14, VM eBooks

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• Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Choices, Solitude, World

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.353, Faber & Faber

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• The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Giants, Poor

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 75

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• I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled.

  Jim Butcher

  Bugs, Volkswagens, Wells

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.33, Penguin Group

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• In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Science, Symphony

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• I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.

  Karl Pilkington

  Funny, Kids, Knows

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• When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

  Albert Einstein

  Track, Interesting, Lucky

  Attributed in "Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography" by Carl Seelig, (p. 80), 1956.

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• I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

  Charles Darwin

  Sound, Trumpets, Feels

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.366, VM eBooks

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• All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.

  Margaret Atwood

  Games, Tree, Forever

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.223, Anchor

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• A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.' 'Strange stuff' 'Thou jesting monkey thou' 'Apes with foreheads villainous low' 'Pied ninny' 'Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Mother, Blow, Light

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• I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.

  Garth Stein

  Rain, Fire, Squirrels

  Garth Stein (2014). “A Sudden Light”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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