The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It was true. Sugar did treat her bees like next of kin but then again, they were. Along with her manners, the accent she…

— Sarah-Kate Lynch

I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy…

— Eminem

The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras – ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.”

— Patrick O'Brian

“He will use the word "love", and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like…

— Sue Monk Kidd

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed,…

— Henry David Thoreau

So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around…

— Ramakrishna

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If you hide honey in the dark, bees will still find it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat…

— Osip Mandelstam

“Bees chase flowers.”

— Tracy L. Shreve

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their…

— Charles Tennyson Turner

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

— Kabir

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

— Sara Sheridan