65 Bee Quotes Buzzing With Lessons And Reminders

"The hum of bees is the voice of the garden."
- Elizabeth Lawrence

"The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited."
- John Burroughs

"The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused."
- Gene Robinson

"The bee is domesticated but not tamed."
- William Longgood

"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."
- Saint Francis De Sales

"When the flower blossoms, the bee will come."
- Srikumar Rao

"Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison flowers."
- John Keats

"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."
- Ray Bradbury

"Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century, they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature's services in a world of close to 7 billion people"
- Achim Steiner

"The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water."
- Karl Von Frisch

"If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops."
- Annalee Newitz

"I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet."
- Trudie Styler

"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."
- Unknown

"I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides."
- Patti Smith

"Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago it's a scandal."
- Brigitte Bardot

"People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this."
- Karl Pilkington

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."
- Mary Kay Ash

"It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur."
- Meridel Le Sueur

"Now, bumblebees, from the day they are born, wear a black-and-yellow jersey just to keep them warm."
- Craig Smith

"Surely, everyone knows the geat furry bumblebee, that gentle giant of the blossoms, that somehow awkward, slow, bumbling bear of a bee."
- Brian L. Griffin

"My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return."
- Sue Hubbell

"Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run."
- George Herbert

"The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams."
- Henry David Thoreau

"A Bee is an exquisite Chemist"
- Royal Beekeeper to Charles II

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

"If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey."
- Matshona Dhliwayo

"We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die."
- Muriel Barbery

"The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness."
- William Shakespeare

"One swallow will not make spring, nor one bee honey."
- Aristotle

"If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Man produces evil as a bee produces honey."
- William Golding

"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."
- Abraham Lincoln

"I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life."
- Beyonce Knowles

"He is not worthy of the honey comb. That shuns the hives because the bees have stings."
- William Shakespeare

"Honey doesn’t lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting."
- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
- Muhammad Ali

"It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted."
- Unknown

"A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower."
- Kin Hubbard

"The busy bee has no time for sorrow."
- William Blake

"How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!"
- Isaac Watts

"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive."
- Thomas Shepard

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
- Marcus Aurelius

"To be successful, one has to be one of three bees the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in."
- Suzy Kassem

"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it!"
- John Muir

"I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it."
- Rosanne Cash

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."
- James Russell Lowell

"The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true."
- Daniel Radcliffe

"Every saint has a bee in his halo."
- Elbert Hubbard

"When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day."
- Congo Proverb

"The lovely flowers embarrass me, They make me regret I am not a bee"
- Emily Dickinson

"Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I'm dead and gone, That's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, But I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through."
- Sue Monk Kidd

"Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?"
- Helen Hunt Jackson

"I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently."
- Zoe Foster Blake

"I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself, and getting as close to the bees’ lives as they will let me—remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human."
- Sue Hubbell

"For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why."
- Sue Hubbell

"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."
- Sue Monk Kidd

"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."
- Sue Monk Kidd

"Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree in tow before nasties from another world destroy them and everything else in their path. Yes, it's a point-and-click adventure game, but behind every click, there's a bit of joy to be found. Bugs sing. Bees dance."
- Rob Manuel

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
- Marcus Aurelius

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

"For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom."
- William Shakespeare

"Bees – by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought, knew that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material."
- Pappus

"If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees."
- Henry Adams