Bee Time Quotes

“a 2011 survey by Food Safety News showed that 75 percent of honey on store shelves had no pollen in it. All honey has at least a few grains of pollen that remain in it after normal straining, and that pollen is the only definitive way to determine country and even region of origin. A complete lack of pollen indicates one of two things: The jar has no honey in it at all, or the honey has been ultrafiltered by heating and forcing the honey through tiny filters to remove all of the pollen.”
― Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

“Il cibo nella sua forma migliore porta con sé memorie e riflessioni che vanno oltre il nutrimento e connette le persone che lo raccolgono alla terra da cui lo prendono, rendendo sacro il semplice atto di mangiare.”
― Mark L. Winston, Il tempo delle api

“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

“If we think about what happens in a human conversation, bees do seem to converse. Like us, they pass information, evaluate, respond, and reevaluate as new information emerges. We both pass on nuanced, complex signals perceived on many levels, some conscious and some at a subconscious neurological or physiological levels.

Most significantly we - and bees - often change our behaviour based on a conversation, which is one of the hallmarks of a social interaction. Bees respond to each other, which is one of the core reasons we relate so strongly to them.”
― Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

“È il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.”
― Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

“Aristotele credeva che la regina non fosse una femmina ma un maschio, e dunque un re, e che le operaie si sviluppassero a partire da una sostanza progenitrice che gli adulti raccoglievano dai fiori e non da uova deposte dalla regina.”
― Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

“Il loro valore economico globale per l'agricoltura è stato stimato in 217 miliardi di dollari nel 2008, in quanto circa un terzo di tutte le coltivazioni beneficia o dipende in maniera esclusiva dall'impollinazione da parte degli insetti, in particolare dalle api.”
― Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

“Le api originariamente si sono evolute dalle vespe circa 125 milioni di anni fa, smettendo di essere predatrici per diventare cercatrici di nettare e di polline.”
― Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive