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.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

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

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

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.

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

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.