Insects Quotes - Page 17

• Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company.

  Mark Lynas

  Summer, Noise, Heat

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• Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

  Henry Spencer

  Political, Democracy, Tick

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• It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as Erwin (Terry Erwin, the Smithsonian Institute) estimates, then, working as they have in the past, insect taxonomists have ten thousand years of employment ahead of them. Ghilean Prance, director of the Botanical Gardens in Kew, estimates that a complete list of plants in the Americas would occupy taxonomists for four centuries, again working at historical rates.

  Richard Leakey

  Taken, Past, Garden

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• In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

  Maria Sibylla Merian

  Youth, My Time, Investigating

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• Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Song, Listening, Soup

  "Privy counsels" by A.C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits and starts, not the way they did in the evening in sustained and drowsy songs.

  Eudora Welty

  Music, Song, Sweet

  Eudora Welty (1974). “The Wide Net and Other Stories”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from the greatest planet down to the least insect, so does the Bible teach us that there is wisdom, order, and design in all the events of our daily life. There is no such thing as 'chance', 'luck', or 'accident' in the Christian journey through this world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Journey, Hands

  "Bible Commentary - The GosBible Commentary - The Gospel of Lukepel of Luke".

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• Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.

  David Fairchild

  Cancer, Science, Sea

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• In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.

  Tim Cahill

  Animal, Wind, Annoyed

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• Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

  William A. Dembski

  Antibiotics, Bacteria, Gains

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• Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

  Don Henley

  Wall, Bangs, Apathy

  Song: Inside Job, Album: Inside Job, 2000

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• Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.

  Henry Beard

  Animal, Garden, Numbers

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• Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Weed, Hero, Light

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• Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

  Larry Niven

  Book, Add, Bags

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• Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Years, Support, Bird

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had never expected it to happen again, this would be enough.Time sheltered their embrace, enfolding them within a summer scented capsule that felt endless and theirs alone. The fragrance of grass and sunlight and nearby water sweetened each breath. Theirs was the music of birds ans the lazy buzz of insects and the beating of two hearts. Yes, she thought, she didn't need more. This would be enough.

  Maggie Osborne

  Summer, Eye, Heart

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• When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.

  Boaz Lavie

  Thinking, Zombie, Dying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Elements, May

  'Hymns in a Man's Life'. Collected in Pheonix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other ProseWorks (1968).

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• Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land."

  Bruce Chatwin

  Mother, Country, Children

  "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.

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• The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.

  Charles Kingsley

  Country, Flower, Men

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In Alaska, the beaches are slumping so much, people are having to move houses. In Tuktoyaktuk, the land is starting to go under water. The glaciers are melting and the permafrost is melting. There are new species of birds and fish and insects showing up. The Arctic is a barometer for the health of the world. If you want to know how healthy the world is, come to the Arctic and feel its pulse.

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Beach, Moving, Alaska

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• So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

  John Marsden

  Pain, Evil, Suffering

  John Marsden (2011). “The Tomorrow Series: Tomorrow When the War Began”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fall, Wind, Firsts

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.79, New World Library

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• I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At 90 I will enter into the secret of things. At 110, everything - every dot, every dash - will live. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age, I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign myself 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing.'

  Hokusai

  Writing, Animal, Men

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• Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.

  David McCullough

  Reading, Book, Feel Better

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