Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Human importance is relative; to smaller creatures, humans are just food.
In plain terms
To a mosquito, a human is just something to eat, not special.
What can you take from it?
Perspective changes how important you seem.

Where it applies

  • challenging human ego
  • viewing nature's perspective

Putting it to work

  • gaining humility
  • seeing alternate views

Questions to consider

  • How does perspective change importance?
  • Are humans special?

Another view

Humans have value beyond what insects perceive.

More from Don Marquis

  1. A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

    Permalink to quote #30
  2. A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

    Permalink to quote #32
  3. A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

    Permalink to quote #29

Related quotes

  1. When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep…

    Marlon BrandoMarlon Brando quote #20
  2. Now the spoiler has come: does it care? Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide That swells and in time will ebb, and all Their works diss…

    Robinson JeffersRobinson Jeffers quote #32
  3. The things that people do cannot under any conditions be more important than the world.

    Carlos CastanedaCarlos Castaneda quote #63