Colour is of prime importance to life on earth: plants use it to attract insect pollinators and to aid dispersal of their fruit; animals use it to attract mates, as warning signals to predators and as camouflage. — Heather Angel Share this quote Post on X Facebook Download image Copy quote Copy link Share… Another quote → Topics Pets
Insect-pollinated flowers show various adaptations to attract insects—in the form of colour, pattern or scent or a combination of these factors. Flowers which are pollinated by butterflies and moths are usually heavily scented, especially those which are visited at night.
All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. Mahavira
A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor. Bertrand Russell Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948)
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)