Insect Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Insect.
Top Quotes
“Insect suffering”
“Swarm intelligence”
“To a first approximation, all multicellular species on earth are insects.”
“Wikipedia: Insect”
“Insects *BC Nature”
“It’s phenomenal that any insect transforms. They all do. That’s part of being an insect.”
“All things are connected with all things throughout the universe, from the insect to the archangel...”
“The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other...”
“A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.”
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.”
“Book of Insect Records*niversity of Florida”
“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift that made you cry.”
“I wonder if that's the reason insects are so fond of flying into candles - because they want to turn into Snap-dragon-flies!”
“The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere —are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.”
“Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation.”
“Wondering how golden-crowned kinglets, which eat insects from open branches, survive the Maine winters...”
“It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.”
“Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! […] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.”
“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 or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled "good" or "bad."”