Quotes About Bees

All of this means that it makes absolute sense for a colony to produce foragers ranging in size, for this allows it to efficiently exploit a broad range of flowers in the surrounding area: small, short-tongued bees for shallow and weak-stemmed flowers, and bigger, longer-tongued bees for the sturdier and deeper flowers.

This is not just about bumblebees, but about creating a future environment for our children to enjoy, where there are still flowers, bees, butterflies and birds, and healthy crops to eat.

Take time to smell the roses and eventually you'll inhale a bee. Anon.

Many bees evolved longer and longer tongues to make it easier for them to reach nectar hidden within flowers; some now have tongues longer than their bodies.fn1

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

Something was jigging and worrying in his brain; it felt like a hive of bees, stirred up by a stick.

I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood.

All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.

I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing.

Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere.

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

If bees die, people will die. Only ignorance never dies! ("Why step out of nature ?")

The world moves fast, and so do the bees. Can we find the stillness to see them?

Love is for the birds.Honey is for the bees.And you, my special one.Are the only one for me.

On one occasion Aliverdi Khan told his elderly general, Mir Jafar Khan, that the Europeans were like a hive of bees, 'of whose honey you might reap benefit, but if you disturbed their hive they would sting you to death'.

The bee is domesticated but not tamed.

Scientists revealed in 2016 that bees find pollen by picking up electrical signals transmitted by flowers, while a British team has lowered extremely high blood pressure by inserting an electrical wire in the brain to change what is being communicated. Understanding electrical communication is vital to understanding our reality (and health) and it is so simple.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

Jasmine "Almost the twenty-first century" -- how quickly the thought will grow dated, even quaint. Our hopes, our future, will pass like the hopes and futures of others. And all our anxieties and terrors, nights of sleeplessness, griefs, will appear then as they truly are -- Stumbling, delirious bees in the tea scent of jasmine.

He also points out the butterflies and bees, the pollinators with wagging tongues, spreading rumors from one plant to another.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.