“So work with the honey bee, creatures that by a rule of nature, teach the art of order to mankind.”
William Shakespeare
This is one of the best bee quotes that I have heard this year and it is so true. But who said it? If anyone can enlighten me please do!
“One fact remains, though.
Say the bees will and they won’t.
Say they won’t, and they will.”
Unknown author (to me at [...]
“The slight regard at this time paid to the medicinal virtues of honey is an instance of neglect men shew to common objects, whatever their value; acting in contempt, as it were of the immediate hand of providence, which has in general made those things most frequent, which have the greatest uses…”
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Whilst we slowly contrive to destroy our planet this quote from the well known Antonine Roman Emperor, battle commander, philosopher and stoic – Marcus Aurelius seems very apt.
“I travel the roads of Nature until the hour when I shall lie down and be at rest; yielding back my last breath into the air [...]
“There’s a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, / And the ricks stand grey to the sun, / Singing: – `Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the clover, / And your English summer’s done’.”
Rudyard Kipling (English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. 1865-1936)
Rudyard Kipling [...]
“Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement”
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The [...]
“Orchid’s beauty was not “designed” by God to please humans but honed by natural selection to attract insect cross-pollinators.”
Charles Darwin 1862
Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the [...]
