Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts…

— Robert Graves

Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

— Vita Sackville-West

Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the…

— Ada Limon

The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of…

— Nathalia Crane

You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work…

— Norton Juster

Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

— Takeda Shingen

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

— William Shenstone

“Bees chase flowers.”

— Tracy L. Shreve

“This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned beetles, flitting…

— Susan Wiggs

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

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in…

— Marcus Aurelius

When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a…

— Louie Schwartzberg

It is hard to imagine a world without bees. It would be even harder to live in it.

— Barry Gardiner

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