Quotes About Pollination

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Did the harebell loose her girdle To the lover bee, Would the bee the harebell hallow Much as formerly?

The murmur of a bee

When bumble-bees in solemn flight

Perché nasca una prateria, bastano un trifoglio, un'ape e un sogno. E se non ci sono le api e il trifoglio, può bastare anche il sogno.

Later, when beekeepers realized that they could get lighter, sweeter honey by placing beehives near particular crops like clover, alfalfa, and citrus, the wild honey collected in forests went first to mead, while more refined, cultivated honey was preferred as a sweetener.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

If I wasn't a human girl I think I'd like to be a bee and live among the flowers.

Flowers make themselves fragrant and offer nectar. Why? To nourish the bees or to get themselves pollinated? Or both? In nature, to get you have to give. There is no charity. There is no exploitation, neither selfishness nor selflessness. One grows by helping others grow. Is that not the perfect society?

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

Don't wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees.

You're the lily and I'm the bee that gets inside.

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.

The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

We have to protect the bees. If we kill the insects and the bees disappear, we're doomed. The balance is delicate and the health of the plants and animals and consumers is... Am I putting you to sleep?

They were graceful. It looked like they were pollinating flowers

Some apple varieties, such as Jonagold, Stayman, Winesap, and Mutsu, produced sterile pollen, and could never be used as pollenizers. Yet pollen from other varieties could be used to pollinate those pollen-sterile trees. Really, the honey bee did all the work.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.