#insects

Organic foods are richer in nutrients. This means they improve satiety and naturally help regulate body weight…Plants produce antioxidants to protect themselves from pests like insects and to withstand harsh weather. When they’re treated with chemicals such as pesticides, they don’t need to produce as much of their own natural defenses, so the levels are lower.” (p.203) ↗

— Cynthia Sass

#body-weight #chemicals #insects #natural-defenses #nutrients

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. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#back #chaos #collapse #disappear #environment

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#first-sentence #insects #transformation #dreams

I love insects. They are amazing. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#i #i love #insects #love

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#being #honey #insects #knowledge #lies

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#across #boundaries #flowing #genes #idea

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me. ↗

— Joan Jett

#food #i #i do #including #insects

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses. ↗

— Alexander Scriabin

#insects #kisses #sonata #sun

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#fruits #good #insects #need #nutrition

I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs. ↗

— Davey Havok

#arachnids #bugs #cows #death #debate