"I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can."
—Jim Rohn (1930-2009)
"All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little."
— Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."
— Clarence Day (1874-1935)
"When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all."
— E. O. Wilson
"Life is priceless even to an ant."
— Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017)
"Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first."
— Clarence Day (1874-1935)
"I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath."
— David Lynch
"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox."
— Lao Tzu (604-531 BC)
"The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine."
— Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)
"Ants and savages put strangers to death."
— Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television."
— Lewis Thomas (1913-1933)
"Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel."
— Karel Capek (1890-1938)
"In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems."
— E. O. Wilson
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
— Gerald Brenan (1894-1987)
"If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today, the earth would start dying tomorrow."
— David Suzuki
“The bee is domesticated but not tamed.”
― William Longgood
“bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.”
― Carol Ann Duffy
“How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!”
― Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
"Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest".
—Proverbs 6:6-8
"Go to the ant, you lazy person; observe its ways and grow wise."
-Proverb 6:6