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#1

“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

tags: bees, bradbury, summer

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#2

“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: bee-keeping, bees, honey

107 likes

#3

“We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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#4

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: bees, earth, love, nature

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#5

“The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water”
― Karl Von Frisch, Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses and Language

tags: bees, earth, nature

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#6

“I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.”
― Sue Hubbell, A Book Of Bees: And How to Keep Them – A Melodious Beekeeping Memoir and Nature Journal from the Missouri Ozarks

tags: beekeeping, bees, human

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#7

“Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.”
― Gunther Hauk, Toward Saving the Honeybee

tags: bees, honeybee, respect

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#8

“The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I’ve known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do.”
― Sue Hubbell, A Book Of Bees: And How to Keep Them – A Melodious Beekeeping Memoir and Nature Journal from the Missouri Ozarks

tags: age, beekeeping, bees, knowledge

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#9

“Sadly, we live in a world where if you do good things, there are no financial rewards. If you poison the earth, there is a fortune to be made.”
― June Stoyer

tags: activism, animal-rights, bees, compassion, dolphins, june-stoyer, neonicotinoids

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#10

“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: bees, chapel, church, god, preacher, preaching, religion, sermon, sermons

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#11

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”
― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: anticipation, honey

1400 likes

#12

“Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt --
O, marvelous error --
That there was a beehive here inside my heart
And the golden bees were making white combs
And sweet honey from all my failures.”
― Antonio Machado

tags: bee, dream, failure, honey, success

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