The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could get along very well without us, although it is perhaps significant that of the two the cockroach would miss us more.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch, (Nov 25 1893-1970), US naturalist, conservationist, writer, critic.; He wrote for The Nation, 1924-1951; his varied works included The Measure of Man, 1955.