We are missing fully half of nature when we eliminate insects from our world of interest. Considering the beauty of color and form and song added to our world and the increase in intelligence offered to us, it is utterly objectionable to impose our antagonism on the insect components of the Great Community of the Earth. Each of these tiny insects is, by definition, an animated being, a being with an anima, a soul; not a human soul indeed, but an insect soul, a thing of marvelous beauty expressing some aspect of the divine.
— Joanne Elizabeth Lauck, The Voice of the Infinite in the Small