Famous quotes containing the words insect and/or galls:
“The universe is not rough-hewn, but perfect in its details. Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. She has no interstices; every part is full of life.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The prosperous and beautiful
To me seem not to wear
The yoke of conscience masterful,
Which galls me everywhere.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)