Quotes About Earthworms

#1. Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#2. It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

Erica Jong

#3. This is how we celebrate the Day of the Dead in America: by turning up our collars against the scent of earthworms calling us home.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

Erica Jong

#5. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?

Lynda Barry

#7. Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

Aristotle.

#9. Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.

Isabella Rossellini

#10. There were no earthworms in New England when the European colonists arrived.

Randall Munroe

#11. The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth ... If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

Will Cuppy

#12. Oh, she felt like dirt. Less than dirt. She felt like the bacteria on the dirt that earthworms ate and then pooped out. Here

T.S. Joyce

#13. It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

Edward Goldsmith

#14. I have come to understand, like Darwin had, that earthworms are not destroyers, but redeemers. They move through waste and decay in their contemplative way, sifting, turning it into something else, something that is better.

Amy Stewart

#15. How earthy old people become
moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Eternity can be found in the minuscule, in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a complex and little-understood dance with the tangle of plant roots that make up their gardens, their cities.

Amy Stewart

#17. God bless the woman who'd invented air-conditioning. Okay, it might have been a man, but I'll bet you dollars to earthworms that a woman nagged him into it.

Carolyn Brown

#18. A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life ... whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.

Julia Child

#19. I'd like to know how to catch a girl. I've caught frogs, I've caught snakes, earthworms ...

Sam The Sham

#20. Figure 14: Garter snakes hunt during the day and sleep at night in common dens with fellow garters. They eat anything they can overpower, including small rodents, birds, earthworms, and frogs.

Janet Evans

#21. Earthworms are far more valuable than people.

Paul Watson

#22. Earthworms will dance

Joel Salatin

#23. I'm a bad case of arrested development, stuck in early adolescence, more screwed-up-twisted-up-tangled-up than a couple earthworms makin' babies.

Dean Koontz

#24. The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Eric Alterman

#25. Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.

Yasmin Mogahed

#27. A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

Lou Holtz

#28. If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

John Larroquette

#29. I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

David Low

#30. I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.

Maria Semple

#31. Minute diamonds of moisture from the mist hung, too, upon Tess's eyelashes, and drops upon her hair, like seed pearls. When the day grew quite strong and commonplace these dried off her; moreover, Tess then lost her strange and ethereal beauty;

Thomas Hardy

#32. Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.

Ian McLeod