Insect Diversity Quotes

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

I love insects. They are amazing.

I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

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

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

Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?

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.

The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for the simple reason that there are nearly 300,000 species of beetle known, and perhaps more, as compared with somewhat less than 9,000 species of birds and a little over 10,000 species of mammals.