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“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...”
“The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water”
“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.”
“717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!”
“For better or worse, honeybees are often much too busy to be bothered with personal reflection.”
“There is nothing perfect...only life.”
“A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, shook; and when the bee flew away it fluttered still as though it were laughing. Happy, careless ...”
“Im quietly sipping my coffee,sitting on the deck,settled in to my little jungle of herbs and buzzing bees,letting my thoughts wander, soaked in the warmth of the rising sun.Breathing in and out the...”
“The fun part is finding which thoughts, in that crazy beehive of emotion, are the ones that mass produce the honey.”
“Is that you giggling away to glory?Or is that just the flowers mingling with the bees and telling their story?”
“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
“I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.”
“Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.”
“Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.”
“If bees die, people will die. Only ignorance never dies! ("Why step out of nature ?")”
“Love is for the birds.Honey is for the bees.And you, my special one.Are the only one for me.”
“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. Nowhen I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”
“...The world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. ...”
“If only thy eyes flutter once, the bees lose their direction and the fighting men their aim!”
“It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.' Then he told me he once banged a girl so hard her frec...”
