Bees Quotes

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.