Cheryl Hayashi Quotes

With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.

For me, each day begins and ends with wanting to learn a little more about the secrets of spider silk.

The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.

Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's very civilized, like a slow ballet.

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

The very first thing on the docket is to have the opportunity to travel to look at spiders in other parts of the world. I know there are really cool silks out there.

It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

If any person examines by the microscope that part towards the extremity of the spider's body from whence its thread proceeds, he will observe the spot to be, as it were, surrounded by five several protuberances or risings, each ending in a point and altogether forming a kind of enclosure.

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.

One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.