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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

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.

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.