#insects

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#build #had #insects #like #look

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. ↗

— Chanakya

#covers #dog #end #insects #life

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything. ↗

— Holly Valance

#everything #i #i see #insects #karma

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ants #dominant #great #habitats #had

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#almost #ants #insects #know #make

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#across #boundaries #flowing #genes #idea

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me. ↗

— Joan Jett

#food #i #i do #including #insects

We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air feels: go, no-go, but also maybe, plus what the hell let's give it a try. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#also #binary #choices #coded #depending

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside. ↗

— Marlene Zuk

#beauty

Insects all business all the time. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#business