"As formigas são o gênero animal de maior sucesso na história terrestre, constituindo de 15% a 20% de toda a biomassa animal terrestre. Acredita-se que o surgimento das formigas na Terra se deu durante o período Cretáceo (há mais de 100 milhões de anos)"
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
Henry David Thoreau
"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men."
Mortimer Adler
"Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them."
E. O. Wilson
"People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants."
Bela Lugosi
"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."
Lewis Thomas
"Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television."
Lewis Thomas
"I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way."
Lewis Thomas
"We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?"
Beth Orton
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
Gerald Brenan
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