Though each season has its beauty and I am
a big fan of winter, as the cool of winter freshens the air and the days
shorten I do like to remember the beauty of summers past. And what is more
reminiscent of summertime than vibrantly blooming flowers and the busy buzzing
bees they attract.
Here, then, is a blog to brighten up those brief, grey and frequently wet days of approaching winter.
Bee
to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? ~
Helen Hunt Jackson
How
doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour, / And gather honey all
the day / From every opening flower! ~ Isaac Watts, Divine Songs for Children,
XX, ‘Against Idleness and Mischief’
A
swarm of bees in May / Is worth a load of hay; / A swarm of bees in June / Is
worth a silver spoon; / A swarm of bees in July / Is not worth a fly. ~
Anonymous, An old rhyme
The
keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. ~ Henry David Thoreau
One
can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without
care. Such is the quality of bees.… ~ Leo Tolstoy
Such
bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting
me," he thought, "I should swell up as big as I am!” ~ J. R. R.
Tolkein, The Hobbit
Aerodynamically,
the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so
it goes on flying anyway. ~ Mary Kay Ash
They
all seemed hungry, happy, and healthy enough in their buzzing – oh the days
were hot, and the noise of bees filled the air that was dusty with pollen and
sun haze.… ~ Janet Frame, Scented Gardens
The
men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee ... gathers
its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms
and digests it by a power of its own. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
The
only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee ...
The only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey ... and the only
reason for making honey is so I can eat it. ~ Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
The
flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes. ~ Mark Nepo
