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And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs. By Kevin Kelly Interesting Walking Discovered Ant Thinking

The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite. By Karl Von Frisch Animal Man Opposite Ant Collectively

Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today. By Haddon W. Robinson Remember Ant Winter Coming Time

When the mind swings by a grass-bladean ant's forefoot shall save you By Ezra Pound Mind Swings Grassbladean Ant Forefoot

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. By E. O. Wilson Ants Land Leading Removers Dead

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds. By Richard Jefferies Tentatively Observing Fails Succeeds Ant

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. By Karel Capek Ants God Great Thou Servants

YOU'RE A QUEER LITTLE THING," Jesse Dittley decided. "LIKE ONE OF THEM ANTS."She tipped her head back to look at him. "How do you reckon?""THEM ANTS THAT WAS ON THE TELEVISION. IN SOUTH AMERICA OR AFRICA OR INDIA. CARRY TEM TIMES THEIR OWN WEIGHT."Blue was flattered, but she said sternly, "All ants can carry ten times their own weight, can't they? Normal ants?""THSE DID BETTER THAN NORMAL ANTS. WISH I COULD REMEMBER HOW THEY DID BETTER. SO I COUDL TELL YOU.""Are you trying to say I'm a better sort of ant?"Jesse Dittley blustered. "DRINK YOUR WATER. By Maggie Stiefvater Thing Queer Jesse Ants Dittley

We're eatable ants. By H.g.wells Ants Eatable

Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food. By Emlyn Chand Hey Ants Shouted Anteater Hungry

Ants are busy. They have too much to do to feel bad. By Marshall Thornton Ants Busy Bad Feel

Over one hundred ninety species of ants have been found to grow a kind of fungi which they fertilize, plant, and even prune. Many of them also keep aphids the way we keep cows. They milk them to obtain their sweet honeydew and build shelters for them like barns. One kind of ant, the fierce Amazon, goes so far as to steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. These slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who are unable to do anything but fight. The soldier ants depend completely on the slave ants for survival. Without them, they would die. By Jenny Offill Ants Plant Amazon Fertilize Prune

Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites stuck to them. You are too intent upon your chewing and gathering to listen to me, but I tell you that despite my warm feelings I really do not like you, and I cannot feel sorry for you in any way because there are too many of you and you are not cute at all. You eat too much of my forests; you are a rebellious tribe, and I will destroy you; I will poison your nests with sweet-smelling traps. By William T. Vollmann Ants Sisters Good Honeydewseekers Gristly

Do not kill ants. They are your best friends. By Joe Brainard Ants Kill Friends

The ants were busy on the ground, big black ones with shiny bodies and the little dusty quick ants. Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him.He watched the ants moving, a little column of them near to his foot, and he put his foot in their path. Then the column climbed over his instep and continued on its way, and Kino left his foot there and watched them move over it. By John Steinbeck Ants Foot Dusty Ground Big

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. By Jim Rohn Kids Curiouskids Watching Ants Adults

Everyone knows an ant, can't, move a rubber tree plant. By Nick Swisher Ant Move Plant Rubber Tree

Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill? By Margaret Atwood Alive Word Anthill Single Ant

It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man. By Charles Darwin Mental Small Matter Instincts Powers

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. By Lewis Thomas Hill Planning Calculating Ants Crowded

When you learn to feel the pain of an ant, you will truly learn to love this world. By Debasish Mridha Learn Ant World Feel Pain

Red ants that had a sour farty smell when they were squashed. By Arundhati Roy Red Squashed Ants Sour Farty

Ants are driven by fear. By Lauren Oliver Ants Fear Driven

Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.[Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquamNullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.] By Ovid Lat Horrea Ants Barns Wealth

Like the previous one, this angel smiles when he sees my blade. He's up for more of a challenge than squashing an ant. At least this ant has a sharp knife and an attitude. By Susan Ee Blade Previous Angel Smiles Ant

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. By E. O. Wilson Ants Humans Complicated Social Organization

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion. By Saadi Ants Fighting Lion Vanquish

Even the ant reached its destination as long as it didn't stop walking. By Nana Awere Damoah Walking Ant Reached Destination Long

Was he the woman with no clue where the ant was or the ant, unaware it was on the woman? By Jeff Vandermeer Woman Ant Unaware Clue

A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant. By Anthony De Mello Prisoner Lived Solitary Confinement Day

Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant. By Richard Lovelace Forbear Thou Husband Ant Great

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. By E. O. Wilson Send War Men Ants Humans

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being. By Charles Kingsley Ant Human

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames. By Harry Hill Flames Ant Magnifying Glass Sunny

We are anthill men upon an anthill world. By Ray Bradbury World Anthill Men

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. By David Lynch World Underneath Discovered Closer Beautiful

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone. By Bernard Werber Ants Community Solidarity Forget Live

I wonder what ants do on rainy days? By Haruki Murakami Days Ants Rainy

Mom," Nathan called to her.Daisy pulled her gaze from the tent and the fleeting glimpse of Jack's bare back, the smooth planes and indent of his spine, the sliver of the white elastic just above the blue waistband of his jeans ... "Hmm?""What's a faaar ant?" he asked just above a whisper."Fire." She chuckled and shook her head. "Fire ant. They have a nasty bite that burns."Nathan smiled. "Well, why didn't he just say fire?""He thinks he did. By Rachel Gibson Jack Mom Nathan Fire Back

We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God made the ant to be. When we meet the ant on the sidewalk, we step over him. He is a creature, like ourselves; not made in the image of God, it is true, but equal with man as far as creation is concerned. The ant and the man are both creatures. By Francis Schaeffer God Ant Made Rid Houses

On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant. By E. O. Wilson Ant Swarming Sidewalk Lawn Colony

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. By E. O. Wilson Ants Insects Make Twothirds Biomass

Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe. By Herbert A. Simon Complex Viewed Figure Irregular Describe

A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill By Bangambiki Habyarimana Hill Politician Promise Moon Deliver

A diligent ant is more useful than a lazy cow. By Matshona Dhliwayo Cow Diligent Ant Lazy

I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t. By Mitch Hedberg Farm Ant Fellas Grow

When giants fought, ants were crushed. By Rachel Caine Fought Ants Crushed Giants

Adult ant-lions come in a variety of sizes and, for the most part, rather drab colouring. They look like extremely untidy and demented dragon-flies. They have wings that seem out of all proportion to their bodies and these they flap with a desperate air, as though it required the maximum amount of energy to prevent them from crashing to the earth. By Gerald Durrell Adult Part Colouring Antlions Variety

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper. By Khalil Gibran Grasshopper Narrow Vision Exalts Busyness

It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the distance between a Type 0 and a Type III civilisation - a factor of 100 billion billion, in fact. Yet we have such a highly regarded view of ourselves, we believe a Type III civilisation would find us irresistible and would rush to make contact with us. The truth is, however, they may be as interested in communicating with humans as we are keen to communicate with ants. By Michio Kaku Type Iii Billion Civilisation Fact

An ant lifts a stone because it believes in itself, not its obstacle. By Matshona Dhliwayo Obstacle Ant Lifts Stone

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free. By John Clellon Holmes Glacier Free Idiotic Industry Ant

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. By Samuel Johnson Sluggard Turn Eyes Prudent Ant

I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. By Henry David Thoreau Ants Red Larger Long Black

The ants are bad" The Bear"the ants?"Tahir"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman. By Tahir Shah Tahir Bear Ants Bad Fooled

Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed By A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Lord Killed Living Creature Son

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. By Terry Pratchett Spanish Studies Weight Tiny Grandmother

There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly By Karl Pilkington Fly Ants Ability

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue. By Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1St Baron Lytton Eater Tongue Court Sort Human

Lead looked to his hand and saw sparkling chunks of glass in the cracks of the road. He saw ants running around the cracks, infinitely small. His blood ran into the cracks, creating rivers for the industrious ants to perplex over. Lead smiled at the creatures, for he understood that there is no difference between them and us in their wanderings and labor. By Nathan Yocum Cracks Road Lead Looked Hand

When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy. By Anthony Jeselnik Glass Burn Ants Magnifying Older

If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around By Kentaro Miura Feet Worry Ants Crush Beneath

That's what we are now - just ants. Only - ""Yes," I said."We're eatable ants. By H.g.wells Ants Said Eatable

Defeating one ant had taken all my energy. (I don't think I have ever written a sadder sentence than that.) By Rick Riordan Defeating Energy Ant Written Sadder

Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve By Charles Baudelaire Ant Sleeve Swarming Citycity Full

He wore Armani suits and drove a Jaguar, but finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning. The very fact that he existed in this world would eventually be forgotten. 'Such a shame, he was so young,' people might say. Or they might not. By Haruki Murakami Jaguar Armani Working Ant Meaning

The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week. By Bert Holldobler Restless Aggression Territorial Conquest Ants

Imagine what humans could do, if we all worked together like an ant colony...minus the queen. By Justin D. Hill Imagine Colony Minus Queen Humans

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,because he knows that the body is nothing. By Swami Vivekananda Body Knowing Pity Ignorantone Give

If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you ... you won't be able to walk. By Kentaro Miura Worried Crushing Ants Beneath Walk

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings. By Eugenie De Guerin Kings Fall Dwellings Palaces Ants

If an ant looked to the towers men build, it could not dig it's own hole By Bangambiki Habyarimana Build Hole Ant Looked Towers

A whale out of water is over-run by ants. By Laozi Ants Whale Water Overrun

If you give an ant infinite time, it can move a mountain all by itself. By Scott Adams Time Give Ant Infinite Move

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants . By Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ants Line Tied Tree Eaten

And real talk, like, seeing these ants and studying them and respecting them, it's like, man, they're in their own community too. They're trying to survive. They love. They fight. They telling themselves something. We can't understand, but one day we will. By Brandon Mccartney Man Talk Real Ants Studying

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners. By Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Ants Intruders Owners House

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. By E. O. Wilson Humans Work Ants Profoundly Affected

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. By Horace Ant Industry Drags Future Tiny

eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants By Ann Howard Creel Eyes Ants Running Work Hundred

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. By E. O. Wilson Ants Insects Dominant World Make

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death. By Martial Phaeton Insect Disregarded Death Ant

Three Antari get on a boat... By V.e Schwab Antari Boat

Holy crap, were they part anteater? By Tymber Dalton Holy Crap Anteater Part

Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells. By Bert Holldobler Ants Research Offer Special Advantages

7. Ant Spray: FAST FIND: A nontoxic spray which can be used anywhere. Ingredients: 2 tablespoon of peppermint essential oil 2 cup warm water 1 spray bottle. Method: In the spray bottle, add essential oils and water. Shake well to combine the ingredients. Spray on ant trails or around areas where you don't want ants to go. Shake well before use. Ants do not like the smell of peppermint and this will act as a strong deterrent. By Lorraine M. Harding Spray Bottle Fast Find Water

The ants say: Dude. You have to copy off people to clap? What's wrong with you, kid? By A.s. King Dude Ants Kid Clap Copy

It didn't seem like they were here to find food. Nor did they have the patience to bite anyone. Left to themselves, they'd quickly haul to particles of mud and built nests here and there in the house. You could try scuttling them with a broom, but they'd get into a mad frenzy and climb up the broom and on to your arm. Before you knew it, they'd be all over you, even under your clothes. For days on end there would be a terrific invasion, and then one day you would wake up to find them gone. There was no telling why they came, where they went. I sometimes saw them racing in lines along the window sills in the front room, where there was nothing to eat. Perhaps they were on a mission of some sort, only passing through our house in self-important columns. But not once did I see the trail of a column, an ant that had no other ants behind it. By Vivek Shanbhag Food Find Broom House Patience

But I saw the little-Ant men as they ranCarrying the world's weight of the world's filthAnd the filth in the heart of ManCompressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heatthan that of the Sun. By Edith Sitwell World Sun Littleant Men Rancarrying

The war of ants over your cloths is prove of your sweetness and attractiveness. By M.f. Moonzajer Attractiveness War Ants Cloths Prove

FURTHER NOTE: This plan can ONLY go wrong in the event of ants. Ants do NOT like being pissed on. By Caitlin Moran Note Ants Plan Wrong Event

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. By Bill Vaughan Endangered Fine Whale Ant Continues

I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm. By Milton Berle Boss Farm Bought Great Gift

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you. By Willard Wigan Kid World Lived Fantasy Talk

The scent of sweet cherry had attracted hundreds of ants. They were crawling over it and into it, many drowning for their greed. By Clive Barker Ants Scent Sweet Cherry Attracted

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. By Ben Hecht Grass Love Life Ant Summer

Do ants get headaches? By David Mitchell Headaches Ants

I ate ants. They weren't that bad. By Leslie Hope Ants Ate Bad

ANTRE (A'NTRE) [antre, Fr. antrum, Lat.]A cavern; a cave; a den. With all my travels history:Wherein of antres vast, and desarts idle,It was my hent to speak.Shakesp.Othello. By Samuel Johnson Lat Antre Antrum Cavern Cave

The ants say: aren't we all bleeding a little? By A.s. King Ants Bleeding