Ben Silbermann Quotes

I love insects. They are amazing.

I love all kinds of insects, and I've heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

I spent my childhood in northern New York State, and like many kids, bugs and other critters fascinated me.

Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.

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.

I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.'

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.

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.

I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don't know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

My kid really loves bugs.

I can pretty much name and rattle off the genus and species of all the bugs you see in everyday life.

Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs.

I was more of, like, into butterflies, insects, playing out in the yard, planting flowers. I was really into plants.

Ants are a curious race

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.