Mantis/evolution

Famous quotes containing the words mantis and/or evolution:

    The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole lurking behind it.
    Chinese proverb.

    As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)