takes me a while, usually, to be able to listen. But when…

Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is going to…

— Sam Hamill

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

— Emily Dickinson

Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make pollination.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“You were planting a seed and a butterfly was standing on a flower afar, just watching you... Do you know what it has in…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this…

— Zaha Hadid

No apple is reliably self-fertile, so each tree needs a pollinator. A neighbour may well have an apple that will do that for you,…

— Monty Don

“How do you... we... you know, faeries pollinate?" "The male produces pollen on his hands and when two faeries decide to pollinate, the male…

— Aprilynne Pike

“Butterflies are short-lived nevertheless do not profess they help in pollination”

— Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

We are developing all sorts of technologies based on what we have learnt from birds, animals and soils. Pollination is worth £billions. But it…

— Tony Juniper

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas…

— Lawrence Shepp

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

— Bryant H. McGill

An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has…

— Tim Benton

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no…

— Albert Einstein