WHO told me to read "Consider Her Ways" by Frederick Philip Grove?
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WHO told me to read "Consider Her Ways" by Frederick Philip Grove? Someone on here told me about this book...
This books is:
* amazing
* a little bonkers, can't believe it's real
* hilarious ... wall to wall ant jokesLet me share a passage:
"She went so far as to assert that, if nature had not given man to ants, ants would, at least in these parts, have had to invent or to breed something much resembling man in order to subsist in safety." 1/
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WHO told me to read "Consider Her Ways" by Frederick Philip Grove? Someone on here told me about this book...
This books is:
* amazing
* a little bonkers, can't believe it's real
* hilarious ... wall to wall ant jokesLet me share a passage:
"She went so far as to assert that, if nature had not given man to ants, ants would, at least in these parts, have had to invent or to breed something much resembling man in order to subsist in safety." 1/
"But, of course, having created ants, the crown and supreme achievement of her work, nature could be trusted to provide for them; and so she had also created man."
-Solenopsis Invicta (invasive fire ant) Queen explaining why humans exist.
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WHO told me to read "Consider Her Ways" by Frederick Philip Grove? Someone on here told me about this book...
This books is:
* amazing
* a little bonkers, can't believe it's real
* hilarious ... wall to wall ant jokesLet me share a passage:
"She went so far as to assert that, if nature had not given man to ants, ants would, at least in these parts, have had to invent or to breed something much resembling man in order to subsist in safety." 1/
@futurebird Sounds like the film "Phase IV"?
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"But, of course, having created ants, the crown and supreme achievement of her work, nature could be trusted to provide for them; and so she had also created man."
-Solenopsis Invicta (invasive fire ant) Queen explaining why humans exist.
2/
@futurebird Also CF:
_The Fire Ants_ (Walter Tschinkel, 2013, Belknap Press)One of the finest popular biology books I have ever read. Seriously. Go read it right now.
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"But, of course, having created ants, the crown and supreme achievement of her work, nature could be trusted to provide for them; and so she had also created man."
-Solenopsis Invicta (invasive fire ant) Queen explaining why humans exist.
2/
The fire ants LOVE humans and find us useful. Our narrator is less impressed.
"In the third place, it has been rumoured that man also keeps cattle; and from that fact it has been inferred by certain bold speculators that he must have reached a social and intellectual stage little below
that of certain ants, though not the most highly developed kinds."The Author (A leaf-cutter) Musing about humans.
3/3
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@futurebird Sounds like the film "Phase IV"?
This book is much older than that book I wonder if it was an inspiration.
The book Phase IV is **terrible** please skip that one.
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The fire ants LOVE humans and find us useful. Our narrator is less impressed.
"In the third place, it has been rumoured that man also keeps cattle; and from that fact it has been inferred by certain bold speculators that he must have reached a social and intellectual stage little below
that of certain ants, though not the most highly developed kinds."The Author (A leaf-cutter) Musing about humans.
3/3
It's nice to know that someone else who has watched ants has noticed that comport themself as if the planet were made for them and they have conquered it. They shape the landscape, farm, raise livestock, and organize all of their affairs and it really makes human people look... messy when you glace up from the anthill.
And yet! It's not like ants are peaceful or meek. They have their warlike moments, deceptions, and more.
So these things are not products of the human mind alone.
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