Quotes by Gilbert White

The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of much more consequence, and have much more influence in the economy of nature, than the incurious are aware of; and are mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.