Famous quotes containing the words insect and/or galls:
“As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect.”
—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)