Small Creatures Quotes

Ants are a curious race

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.

I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...

It's a hard world for little things.

Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them