“To a bee, a flower is a fountain of life. To a flower, a bee is a messenger of love.”

“For so work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.”William Shakespeare, Henry V

“Unto the industrious nature of bees nothing is more odious than sloth and idleness.”Charles Butler, The Feminine Monarchie

“The bee is more honoured than other animals, not because it labours, but because it labours for others.”Attributed to St John Chrysostom

“And live alone in the bee-loud glade.”W. B. Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.”Emily Dickinson

“The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.”Emily Dickinson

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

“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”William Blake

“The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.”Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Princess

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