Imagine that
How Many Ants Are There on Earth? You’re Going to Need More Zeros.
There are 20 quadrillion ants worldwide, according to a new census, or 2.5 million for every living human. There are probably even more than that.
I know that many will find that difficult to grasp---but not ME
I once had the great misfortune of encountering fully all my 2.5 million while crawling on me belly across an arid plain in an attempt to close on a memorable antelope. With my attention focused solely on me quarry I accidently invaded the home of 2.5 million of fire ants----that had no sense of humor at all.
Sadly, while I was jumping up and down tearing off my cloths that damn antelope had the audacity to depart
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis