Ed Baker - Invertebrates

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edwbaker — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:01:23 +0000

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.

— Stephen Fry

The Fry Chronicles (2010) pg 286

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edwbaker — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:12:50 +0000

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

— African Proverb

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edwbaker — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:12:12 +0000

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

— Dalai Lama

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edwbaker — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:20:37 +0000

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.

— Roger Vick

http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?Word=Diapheromera

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edwbaker — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:22:42 +0000

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

— Ambrose Bierce

The Devil's Dictionary

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edwbaker — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:21:08 +0000

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

— Bradley Millar

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edwbaker — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:19:13 +0000

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

— Proverbs 30:27

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edwbaker — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:18:22 +0000

The locust flies with the wings of a falcon.

— Saudi Arabian Saying

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edwbaker — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:17:12 +0000

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.'

— Arabian Legend

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edwbaker — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:16:16 +0000

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

— Indonesian Proverb