Talk:Arthropods

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 * Nothing more than a little shrimp-like animal, standing on its head in a limestone house and kicking food into its mouth
 * Louis Agassiz on barnacles


 * Don't accept the chauvinistic tradition that labels our era the age of mammals. This is the age of arthropods. They outnumber us by any criterion – by species, by individuals, by prospects for evolutionary continuation.
 * Stephen Jay Gould, 1988.


 * If we live out our span of life on earth without ever knowing a crab intimately we have missed having a jolly friendship. Life is a little incomplete if we can look back and recall these small people only as supplying the course after soup and with the Chablis.
 * William Beebe, Nonsuch: Land of Water (1932).


 * What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly.
 * Richard Bach


 * There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
 * Buckminster Fuller


 * A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
 * Samuel Johnson


 * God in His wisdom made the fly. And then forgot to tell us why.
 * Ogden Nash, "The Fly".


 * I never could have thought of it, to have a little bug all lit and made to go on wings.
 * Elizabeth Madox Roberts, "Firefly".


 * The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
 * Rabindranath Tagore ''"Stray Birds"'