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“These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”

Nature Friendship Community Garden Philosophical Be Good Bees Insects Hives Honey Bee Beehives Bees And Honey

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.”

Years Important Sometimes Community Millions Conditions Bird Garden Climate Species Locals Rely Soil Native Insects Indigenous Wildlife

Author:David Suzuki

“Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.”

Moon Singing Garden Winter Thread Insects February

Author:Matsuo Basho

“The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.”

Doe Animal Food Spring Concern Garden Pet Honey Bees Insects Spiders Dessert Aristocracy Pedigree Clovers Honey Bee Bees And Honey

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”

Summer Garden Insects Summertime End Of Summer Summer Garden

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.”

Life Feels Lines Fine Garden Thread Insects Bugs Spiders

Author:Alexander Pope

“The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.”

Art Feet Garden Kingdoms Insects

Author:Stephen Vincent Benet

“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.”

Growth Sun Sky Garden Blue Thread Insects Bugs Inarticulate Dragonflies

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.”

Hands Eye Poor Fool Garden Prison His Eyes Butterfly Insects Purple Monarch Butterfly

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.”

Dies Cry Garden Cricket Insects Cherries

Book:Classic Haiku: An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers

Source: Classic Haiku: An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers