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“Our hands have held the life of every atom, and our eyes read the stories, of each soul. Our mouths have spoken words, as old as speaking, and our feet have walked through the centuries of old. Our essence has embraced so many others, from the bumbling bees, to the comets in the skies. Star dust, is the stuff, of which we’re made of, and there ain’t enough words around, to describe.”
― Hendrith Smith, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“I
Have a self to recover, a queen.
Is she dead, is she sleeping?
Where has she been,
With her lion-red body, her wings of glass?

Now she is flying
More terrible than she ever was, red
Scar in the sky, red comet
Over the engine that killed her�
The mausoleum, the wax house.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“A gentleman goes in search of flattery as keenly as a bee hunts for pollen.”
― Kevin Ansbro, The Minotaur's Son & Other Wild Tales

“Bees - Bees helps feeding entire species
on Mother Earth by pollinating crops,
wild plants and cultivated plants.

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Humans - We mostly gather and relish on these foods
and crops, hardly caring to plant a single flower
as a return gift for our humble bees to feed on.

Go Garden! Bee a Human! Save Bees! Save Food for Our Generations to Come!”
― RESHMA CHEKNATH UMESH, DEAR READER BY JULIE

“We also know how dangerous it is to simplify society by the use of examples in nature. However, many Americans still value the honey bee as a symbol of thrift and industry. This value seems to be one of the lingering philosophies from seventeenth-century England, in which the royal authorities and clergy dictated that the lower classes and unemployed should be “busy as beesâ€� so they would not rebel. When the English began to label their own members of society as “drones,â€� they privileged a new set of values based on work, thrift, and efficiency. The American Dream still seems to be based on these very values. And if somehow people do not attain the American Dream, we tend to think that they have not worked hard enough or did not save their money—in short, they are too much like drones. It could be argued that many American social policies—so conscious of work, labor, and time—are still based on the beehive model first adopted during the seventeenth century in England. For all its rhetoric of new opportunities, America still sees poverty as a sin, as if somehow the poor aren’t thrifty or busy as bees.”
― Tammy Horn

“If a person sees a beehive, and has not seen one previously, he will become bewildered because he does not understand who made it. If he then learns that it is the work of the bee, he will be bewildered again by how this weak creature makes these hexagons, the likes of which a skilled engineer would be unable to make with a compass and ruler.”
― Zakariya al-Qazwini

“The bees are dying and humans are not far behind.”
― Steven Magee

“What is the Imago Dei, the Image of God? It’s a hive. God is the total hive, and we are all the hive cells. We are all mind bees, buzzing in our Singularity.”
― Thomas Stark, Base Reality: Ultimate Existence

“The wonder! The beauty! The love of it all!
Every act to save matters no matter how small.”
― H.D. Vesser, Sleeping BEE-auty: Bart's Big Book Of Bee

“You must feel the rustle of the leaves. You must feel the rumble of the clouds. The flowers sing their own songs. The bees create their own rhythm. The waves serenade with distinct notes. The breeze captivates in its own chords. And the moon mesmerizes in her own melodies. You must understand the symphony of nature.”
― Avijeet Das

“It became a game that I took to with immense gusto: to see how much I could remember about dandelions themselves, or picking wild grapes with my father and brother, rediscovering the mosquito-breeding ground rain barrel by the side bay window, or searching out the smell of the gold-fuzzed bees that hung around our back porch grape arbor. Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“Soft green grass grew in front of the house. There stood the cypress too, and, as if on purpose, it was singing with its tree-voice, its sweet-sounding voice, inviting to the ear. Then there were bees which had lived under a tile and were humming in the air. And then, like a miracle, so unexpected that it made them rub their eyes, there was a small lilac tree in full blossom.”
― Jean Giono, Regain

“Our very human to simplify and seek one answer may explain our ongoing difficulty in recognizing impending synergy and acting before systems collapse. We are prone to accept death by a thousand little cuts, in which one degraded aspect of our environment or health becomes familiar and accepted as normal--and then another.”
― Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

“I caught her one day eating a bee. When she realized I was watching, she spit it out, saying the bee had flown into her mouth. But I knew that she ate bees. She would choose the ones that had drunk the most wisteria juice and keep them alive in her mouth for a moment, let them play a little before swallowing.”
― Mercè Rodoreda, Death in Spring

“In the evenings they would sometimes sit out in the garden and listen to the steady hum of the beesâ€� industry and breathe in the honey in full flow. The Boys learnt how the different sounds from the hive denoted different moods, different activities, and that each worker, far from being a mere gatherer of nectar or builder of comb, carried out a whole host of duties at various points in her short life―a nursemaid to the larvae, a sentry to keep out robber bees, a carpet sweeper to keep the hive tidy, a punka-wallah when it got too hot.”
― Mick Jackson, Five Boys

“And the fields are complicated with flowers,
summer an insurrection of bees,
the days like clover petals'
pinpricks of nectar”
― Matthew Francis, The Mabinogi

“On one occasion, an ancient great-aunt of mine, hieratically assuming a head-dress of feather and globules of jet, required me to accompany her to the beehives. ‘But you surely don't need a hat, Aunt Jane! They're only at the end of the garden.â€� ‘It is the custom,â€� she said, grandly. ‘Put a scarf over your head.â€� Arrived, she stood in silence for a moment. Then â€� ‘I have to tell you,â€� she said, formally, ‘that King George V is dead. You may be sorry, but I am not. He was not an interesting man. Besides,â€� she added â€� as though the bees needed the telling! â€� ‘everyone has to dieâ€�.”
― P.L. Travers, What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story

“I don’t remember the particulars but when he [Dr. Hichiro Shimanuki, aka ‘Shim’] was nearly finished he offered an observation that was, for the most part, missed by the majority of those present. â€� Answers and dogma, went the feeling, saves bees, money, and time. â€� Shim’s observations were, however, profound, and any beekeeper who listened carefully to his challenge is probably doing quite well today.

Basically, his observation was this: He called it the Rule of Rights. � If you produce the right number of bees that are the right age and the right condition, and are in the right place at the right time, you will be successful.

The complexity of achieving this goal is well hidden in the simplicity of his statement. But to accomplish this requires making intelligent and correct decisions based on sound planning, correct timing, and getting the balance of business and biology to work in an operation. There’s little how-to hidden within this simple statement. Rather, it is a goal to strive for in many ways. It is, in the real world, not easy and it is not often that it will be achieved.

[From the ‘Introduction.’]”
― Kim Flottum, Better Beekeeping: The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Stronger Colonies and Healthier, More Productive Bees

“In my head, I am Zelda
and this is my party, but the truth is
it’s almost morning, truth is
I’m the worker bee and not the queen.”
― Kelli Russell Agodon, Dialogues with Rising Tides

“Oh Bees,â€� she says. “I send greetings to your Queen. I wish to be her friend, and to prepare a safe home for her, and for you who are her daughters, and to tell you the news every day. May you carry messages from the land of the living to all souls who dwell in the land of shadows. Please tell me now whether you accept my offer.”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam

“There’s nothing like the first time ten thousand honeybees surround you. Not that a second time is any more charming, but it’s the sheer terror that grips one’s heart when such an encounter takes place for the first time. Words do not do justice to the experience as you can never convey to someone how nerve-racking it is to stand next to ten thousand honeybees looking to sting you. Yet, despite the sheer terror you experience, your heart threatening to jump out of your chest, you feel compelled to take a closer look;”
― Scott Proposki, Bee Focused: What Honeybees Can Teach Us About Change, Crisis, and Communication

“Bees make honey while the sun shines.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“If I could talk with bees and flowers, would our conversations be poetry? What about communication with ducks?”
― Jarod Kintz, One Out of Ten Dentists Agree: This Book Helps Fight Gingivitis. Maybe Tomorrow I’ll Ask Nine More Dentists.: A BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm Production

“If bees are willing to take their honey, they are unlikely
sting”
― JS Dirga, Saga Moon Poem

“maybe bees are sensitive, unusually sensitive, to all the negativity in the human world. Maybe they are connected to us in come essential way that we haven't figured out yet, and their death is a warning of some sort to us, like the canaries in a coal mine, sensitive to an emergency that will soon be apparent to dull, slow human beings.”
― Teju Cole, Open City

“It’s no surprise, however, that baseball and finally softball teams continued to adopt the honey bee as their mascot after World War II. With the issue of race becoming an explosive issue, sports and schools became the avenues for the American public to address racial and gender prejudice. Because Americans don’t have a national religion, sports provide a way for people to share rules and values. From the Burlington Bees to the Salt Lake Buzz, baseball teams chose the honey bee as their icon because such a symbol emphasized a tightly organized social infrastructure, which good baseball teams need.”
― Tammy Horn, Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation

“BEES USE VERY LITTLE OF WHAT THEY PRODUCE AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM! DO YOU PRODUCE MORE THAN YOU NEED?”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“What were you listening to? Grime music?"
"A podcast about bees," says Poppy. "If they die, we're doomed, I'm afraid."
"Then I shall be more careful in future," says Elizabeth”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“The bees produce
monofloral honey from linden trees.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Ghost Tracks

“I quickly shifted my gaze to the wallpaper, where it skimmed across the bright flowers and mischievous rabbits and landed on one of the bees in the print. I swear I saw its wings flutter. I reached out to touch it only to realize the bee was warm under my fingertip.
"Do you like the wallpaper?" Cora Bee asked. "Some people think it's too busy, too colorful, too much."
I turned to face Cora Bee. "It's not any of that. It's perfect."
Though her eyes were tired, haunted, she smiled. "I think you'll fit in around here just fine, Emme."
And I smiled, too, because I knew she wasn't lying.”
― Heather Webber, In the Middle of Hickory Lane