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“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede - not because it has a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes (German physics professor and scientist 1742 - 1799)

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“TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (_Mendax interminabilis_).”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes
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“When I was five years old I saw an insect that had been eaten by ants and of which nothing remained except the shell. Through the holes in its anatomy one could see the sky. Every time I wish to attain purity I look at the sky through flesh.”
no_echo Salvador Dalí quotes (Spanish painter, 1904-1989)
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“Life is a dimension of tree in the eyes of an insect. Life is strange sence experienced by a migrating bird....”
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“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
Charles Darwin quotes (English Naturalist and Author of the theory of evolution by natural selection. 1809-1882)
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“A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?”
George Eliot quotes (English Victorian Novelist. Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880)

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“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.”
Jacques Cousteau quotes (French Explorer, 1910-1997)
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