The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.
Quotes about locusts (10 Quotes)
Therefore We sent upon them widespread death, and the locusts and the lice and the frog and the blood, clear signs but they behaved haughtily and they were a guilty people.
By the time they got the product in Africa to treat their outbreaks, the locusts had moved, possibly to another country. That's why it's important to have the product on hand so treatment can begin early on,
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
These are the years that the locusts have eaten, ... It will take a minimum of two years for us to get back on our feet.
Politics and locusts always mix. In the mix there is never any logic though. Politics makes locust control difficult,
Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. . . . To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks . . . all lovely and loose and jingly.
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.
I thought it would be impossible for somebody to get that unlucky again. I mean, so much went wrong they had everything but locusts on 'Quixote,' it was really, really bad luck.
The key is to treat outbreaks early. If you wait two or three generations you could be looking at 50 to 100 times more locusts,