Quotes by category:Pests

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

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Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

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You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand. by Anne, Princess Royal

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

Anne, Princess Royal

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I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus. by Beverly Cleary

I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.

Charles Bukowski

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Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

Claudius Claudianus

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And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

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I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best. by Franklin P. Adams

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

Franklin P. Adams

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Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest w... by Helen Fisher

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third... by Jean de la Bruyere

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

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Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

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Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing.

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I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.

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How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering. by Lorenz Hart

How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

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As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

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New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

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One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

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A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does. by Oliver Herford

A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.

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