Bees Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

— John Muir

Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

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

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