Bees Quotes

• If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Men, Years, Bees And Honey

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• The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

  Mark Nepo

  Life, Positive, Success

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.165, Conari Press

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• The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Animal, Honey Bee, Labor

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• You never can tell with bees.

  A. A. Milne

  Night Time, Cute Winnie The Pooh, Winni The Pooh

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.18, Egmont UK

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• Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

  Slash Coleman

  Heart, Love Is, Pollen

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• So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

  Alton Brown

  Hands, Honey, Sophisticated

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• No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

  Thomas Hood

  Flower, Fall, Butterfly

  'No!'

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• It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Honey, Pounds, Enough

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• Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

  Emily Dickinson

  Squirrels, Heaven, Afternoon

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

  David Foster Wallace

  Moving, Take Time, Stills

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

  Ashley Smith

  Life, Beauty, Dream

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• The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Happy, Men, Dolphins

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• For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

  William Shakespeare

  Order, Bees And Honey, Kingdoms

  'Henry V' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

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• Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ideas, People, Secret

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.148, Penguin

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• Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Passion, Names, Flames

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1892). “Poems”

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Friendship, Nature, Philosophical

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Reading, Mind

  1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

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• I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

  Patti Smith

  Strong, Pesticides, Losing

  "Patti Smith: Forget terrorism, save the bees" by Caitlin McDevitt, www.politico.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Generations, Facts

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.1790, Delphi Classics

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

  Mindy Kaling

  People, Realistic, Hyper

  Twitter post from Aug 5, 2012

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• How doth the little busy bee
  Improve each shining hour,
  And gather honey all the day
  From every opening flower!

  Isaac Watts

  Flower, Shining, Littles

  Divine Songs for Children "Against Idleness and Mischief " l. 1 (1715) See Carroll 5

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• The revery alone will do
  If bees are few.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Pollination, Clovers

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.

  Robin Gibb

  Proud, Bee Gees

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Karel Capek

  Philosophy, Medicine, Gentleman

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

  Maurice Gibb

  Saws, Left Behind, Streets

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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