As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the… — Cynthia Lewis Copy Share Image
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“along with the rest of our helpless world; and, O, if you could, you would, where lovers walked, sell off trees and… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“the smell of resin filled the air. A thrush was singing somewhere. Late harebells were thick among the grass, and small blue… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“...The world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“our investigation led us to discover was that at the peak of the battle the Jewish soldiers owed their success less to… — Larry Collins Copy Share Image
Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services… — Frances Ford Seymour Copy Share Image
Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“Lady Gregory, in a note to her play Aristotle’s Bellows, writes: Aristotle’s name is a part of our folklore. The wife of… — Hilda M. Ransome Copy Share Image
All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain,… — Violet Fane Copy Share Image
It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“Dutifully, the Count put the spoon in his mouth. In an instant, there was the familiar sweetness of fresh honey—sunlit, golden, and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and...… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“You make me smile like the sun, fall out bed, sing like a bird, dizzy in my head. Spin like a record… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
