Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

If Noah had been very wise, he would have swatted those two flies.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Butterflies ... not quite birds, as they are not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.