Insect Conservation Quotes

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

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

I really liked insects - all kinds: flies, grasshoppers, weevils.

Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.

I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.