Bees Quotes - Page 23

• The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

  Robert Bly

  Journey, Other Worlds, Wings

  Robert Bly (1986). “Selected poems”, Harper Perennial

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• Hebe's here, May is here!
  The air is fresh and sunny;
  And the miser-bees are busy
  Hoarding golden honey.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Air, Hoarding, May

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1882). “The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

  Ernest A. Fortin

  Years, Four, Honey

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• If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're missing the sunrises and sunsets and you're missing the fact that bees pollinate all these crops and keep us alive and the way that everything seems to work together. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Believe, Sunset

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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• Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.

  Wayne Campbell

  Writing, Tunes, Zeppelins

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• Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is a very beautiful letter, full of good advice. Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books...But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside, it says. Teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Beautiful, Teacher, Father

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• Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Home, Self

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.258, Macmillan

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• Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Flower, Important, Fundamentals

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• The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

  Plato

  Drones, Idle, Idleness

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Honey, Construction, Sweetest

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Butterfly, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.

  John Muir

  Fall, Angel, Sunshine

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• Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!

  William Allingham

  Kings, Spring, Yellow

  William Allingham (1855). “The music master, a love story, and two series of Day and night songs”, p.176

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• When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Soul, Done

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. We know ourselves best and tend to view other creatures as mirrors of our own constitution and social arrangements. ( Aristotle , and nearly two millennia of successors, designated the large bee that leads the swarm as a king.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kings, Views, Two

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.61, Lulu.com

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• Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of his passions whirled; The bee that takes the pollen to the flower; The earth, uplifting her bare, pulsing breast To fervent kisses of the amorous sun;-- Each but obeys creative Love's behest, Which everywhere instinctively is done.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Uplifting, Flower

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. .... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head...

  William Golding

  War, Men, Years

  "The Hot Gates". Book by William Golding, 1965.

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• I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

  Eminem

  Teacher, School, Funny Things

  "Song: 'I'm Shady'". 1999.

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• I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.

  Eminem

  Miracle, Agility, Killers

  Song: Tonite, Album: Infinite

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• How many men
  Have spent their blood in their dear country's service,
  Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves,
  That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on,
  Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up,
  Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.

  Thomas Otway

  Country, Selfish, Cutting

  Thomas Otway, Roger Boyle Earl of Orrery (1703). “The Orphan, Or, The Unhappy-marriage: A Tragedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre”, p.12

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• Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

  George Herbert

  Eye, Elbows, Disease

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.324

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• Every bees hony is sweet.

  George Herbert

  Sweet

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.345

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• Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.320

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• Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.361

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