It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
All the best work is done the way ants do things- by tiny, untiring and regular additions.
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.
... indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders what wise hand teacheth them to doe what reason cannot teach us ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, Whales, Elephants, Dromidaries and Camels these I confesse, are the Colossus and Majestick pieces of her hand but in these narrow Engines there is more curious Mathematicks, and the civilitie of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdome of their Maker.
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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?
All good work is done the way ants do things Little by little.
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.
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