Quotes by Ants Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. E. O. Wilson rest-of-life land ants When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. E. O. Wilson ants tree bird In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. E. O. Wilson ecosystems land ants Wonderful theory, wrong species. E. O. Wilson theory ants wonderful Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it. E. O. Wilson saws done ants 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 insects ants two The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. E. O. Wilson ants way thinking The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. E. O. Wilson pheromones ants world Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods. E. O. Wilson ants use world Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. E. O. Wilson predator ants world At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton prey tongue ants All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. Elihu Burritt ants time facts when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants. Ellen Wittlinger elephants ants rooms I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works. Evangeline Lilly physics ants world Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business. Fannie Flagg glasses ants expression The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Ezra Pound dragons ants world What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment. Friedrich Schiller ants together wind We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end. Gautama Buddha mosquitoes cricket ants Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. Guru Nanak dominion ants kings This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. H. G. Wells ants men war «123456»
