I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn’t come back
Flies are the price we pay for summer.
The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.
Fishing. . . is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
An insect is more complex than a star. . and is a far greater challenge to understand.
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.
I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.
It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.
We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic.
The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.
