Bees Quote by Henry David Thoreau

When the flower opens, the bees will come.

— Kabir

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.

— Srikumar Rao

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the…

— Lewis Thomas

“Use Books as Bees Use Flowers.”

— cited by Honey Wax Booksellers' catalog

“bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.”

— Carol Ann Duffy

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

“The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive”

— Frederick Turner

“For this, let gardens grow, where beelines end, sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia; where bees pray on their knees, sing, praise in pear…

— Carol Ann Duffy

“Bees chase flowers.”

— Tracy L. Shreve

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

— Ramakrishna

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

— Dean Koontz

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

— Isaac Watts