Thoughts on { Bees | Goethe / Maurice Maeterlinck / David Foster Wallace / William Shakespeare / Marcus Aurelius / Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.”
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
Maurice Maeterlinck
“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
“It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.”
Sue Monk Kidd
“The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.”
“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
Marcus Aurelius
“For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”
Saint John Chrysostom
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”
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