Ed Baker

We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each. Monocultures are uninhabitably dull and end as deserts.

Treat the Earth well. It is not inherited from your parents, it is borrowed from your children.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Diapheromera, would you believe,
Is an insect that's built to deceive.
As a camouflage trick
He is built like a stick,
And when posed, he is hard to perceive.

House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands.

The locust flies with the wings of a falcon.

And a locust unto Mahomet said: 'We are the army of the great God; we produce ninety-nine eggs; if the hundred were completed, we should consume the whole earth and all that is in it.'

Different fields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.