#pest

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. ↗

— Will Carleton

#beetle #drought #each #fall #farmer

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#banned #because #been #bees #disappeared

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#being #clear #every #existence #him

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more. ↗

— Chris Elliott

#appearing #continually #general #general public #just

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. ↗

— Brian Greene

#answer #attaining #best #deepest #familiarity

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#aim #create #deepest #emanate #experience

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#bare #battle #become #before #begin

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#bear #deepest #must #others #peace

Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#cosmetic #dangers #fully #generation #i

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely. ↗

— Richard Savage

#anger #deepest #hot #like #man