44 Insects Quotes for You to Enjoy

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. E. O. Wilson

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions. David Suzuki

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The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life? Richard P. Feynman

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture. Alex Grey

Man Architecture Plants Circle Insects Ocean Location Monumental Ancient Outdoor Dried Perfect Crust Like Makes Bed Interactive Flat Burning Gallery Sculpture Ground Special

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses. Alexander Scriabin

Insects Sun Born Kisses Sonata

In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals. Gregory Benford

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Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none. Guillermo del Toro

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When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products? Jeremy Rifkin

Plants Insects Animals Other Birds Digest Seed Contact Come Materials Happens Land Acres Producing Products Pharmaceutical Millions Vaccines

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. Nicolas Cage

Life Love Insects Animals Birds Fish Whales Reptiles Sentient Fascination

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city. Sylvia Earle

Life You Will Insects Living Beneath Peer Bits Bits And Pieces Miniature City See Small Host Environment Feet Prospers Moss Look Pieces Redwood Forest Board Toad Bark Many Whole Lumber

It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill. August Krogh

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I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development. Christopher Guest

Fly Insects Imitations Development Make Fisherman Different Stages Flies Different Stages

People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them. Dominic Monaghan

People Fear Insects Relate Unknown Structure Limbs Understand Very Than Different Senses Them Us Really Body Hard Amount

Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us: except for the realm of insects, the whole history of life on earth is inscribed within our bodies. Ellen Ullman

I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant lot. Gary Larson

Myself Insects Spend Intrigued Could Hours Lot Flew Things Vacant

I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects. Gregory Benford

Best Insects Felt Always Left Specialization

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal. Hendrik Poinar

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Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories. Jacques Perrin

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It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade. John Burnside

Knowledge Key Insects Depend Our Collapse Would Without Continue Existence Than Decade Human Common Common Knowledge Human Population Less Population Now

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