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Quotes About Pollination

Roundup is a herbicide that contains glyphosates. Glyphosates have been shown to cause birth defects among animals and humans. Glyphosates are also responsible for wiping out bee colonies. Bees are important because they pollinate plants. Lose the bees and we're screwed." I
~ Steve Alten
A hybrid plant is the result of the cross-pollination between two genetically different plants, usually of the same species but different varieties. This combination can happen because of cultivation, or it can occur naturally through bee pollination between two different plants.
~ Steven A. Frowine
By producing sugars and proteins to entice animals to disperse their seed, the angiosperms multiplied the world's supply of food energy, making possible the rise of large warm-blooded mammals. Without flowers, the reptiles, which had gotten along fine in a leafy, fruitless world, would probably still rule. Without flowers, we would not be.
~ Michael Pollan
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
~ Bryant McGill
When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.
~ Louie Schwartzberg
lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring...
~ Sue Hubbell
Classical economics values things by seeing how much someone will pay for them. But this is where classical economics is wrong. What it fails to account for are all the 'externalities' - the services people regard as free goods: pollination services, flood protection, climate regulation, soil stabilization, carbon sequestration.
~ Barry Gardiner
For this, let gardens grow, where beelines end, sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia; where bees pray on their knees, sing, praise in pear trees, plum trees; bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
It was the small things she took pleasure in. The faint hum of a huge furry bumble bee busily flitting from one flower to another, oblivious to the fact that it was completing a task on which the entire human race depended.
~ Kathryn Hughes
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
~ St. Chrysostom
Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.
~ Trina Paulus
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
~ Bryant McGill
The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
~ Albert Einstein
Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
~ Neil Young
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
~ Victor Hugo
The lovely flowers embarrass me, They make me regret I am not a bee –
~ Emily Dickinson, 1864
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein.
~ Albert Einstein
The soul is like pollen : it reminds it.
~ Charles de Leusse
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
~ Ramakrishna
The bees are very attentive to the flowers until their honey is done, and then they fly over them. I don't know if the flowers feel grateful to the bees, they are great fools if they do.
~ Olive Schreiner
Those are the little seed-producing flowers, and the long catkins, they only produce pollen, to fertilise them.' 'Do they, do they!' repeated Hermione, looking closely. 'From those little red bits, the nuts come; if they receive pollen from the long danglers.
~ D.H. Lawrence
the way that good ideas often blossom: a bumblebee brings half an idea from one realm, and pollinates another fertile realm filled with half-formed innovations
~ Walter Isaacson