Ants Quotes

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau

Busy, Enough, Question

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.
Holly Valance

Karma, Everything, Room

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. Wilson

Social, Earth, Next

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

Nothing, Almost, Millions

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
E. O. Wilson

Love, Work, School

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
E. O. Wilson

Once, Social, High

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
E. O. Wilson

Work, Humans, Affected

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
E. O. Wilson

Great, Almost, Land

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Dead, Rest

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
E. O. Wilson

Away, Land, Partial

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

Tell, Workers, Dominant

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
David Lynch

Beautiful, Looks, Red

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
Bela Lugosi

Live, Afraid, Monotony

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.
Lewis Thomas

Technology, End, Single

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 labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas

War, Human, Everything

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.
Clarence Day

Good, Place, Group

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Mortimer Adler

Men, Live, Ideas

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
Lewis Thomas

Live, Thinking, Together

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Isak Dinesen

Nature, Evil, Abundance

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
Adam Ant

Wanted, Knew, Survive

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.
Andrea Corr

Life, Same, Around

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
Karel Capek

Great, God, Victory

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.
Ali Larter

Fun, Help, Play

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
John Galsworthy

Life, Religion, Future

When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
Saskya Pandita

Work, Great, Single

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.
Kiri Te Kanawa

Good, Learning, Hurt

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
Marie Dressler

Time, Busy, Find

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan

Few, Endure, Closer

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
Beth Orton

Around, Hand, Generation

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
Tarsem Singh

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