Insects Quotes
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
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I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.
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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.
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Water keeps hogs cool during the summer months, and the hogs use mud to help protect their skin from insects. Hogs root to eat, and rooting in muddy areas is much easier than rooting in dry areas.
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My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
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Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea.
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Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.
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Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!
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Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their world as 'black and white,' in that they can't see the multiple colors required to reconstruct a color image of the world. They do, however, have specialized cells that enable them to see ultraviolet wavelengths.
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I think the future of food is in insects.
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We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.
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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.
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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
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You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.
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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.
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Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of wings for a total of four. In flies, the hindwing pairs have been transformed through evolution into the halteres.
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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
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It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.
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Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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I grew up watching 'Star Trek.' I love 'Star Trek.' 'Star Trek' made me want to see alien creatures, creatures from a far-distant world. But basically, I figured out that I could find those alien creatures right on Earth. And what I do is I study insects.
